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Chidambaram's remark on Disaster Mission team clarified | | The Ministry of Home Affairs today sought to clarify Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram's statement made in reference to Cthe train accident on July 19, 2010 during a meet
of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday morning. The
Union Home Minister, while addressing a meeting of the NDMA, this morning, referred
to the time taken to despatch National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams for
rescue and relief operations following the train accident on July 19, 2010. "The
first set of NDRF teams left at about 4.30 a.m. and the second set of NDRF teams
left at about 6.00 a.m. Home Minister expressed a desire that ways must be found
to respond more quickly in case of a disaster. In that context, he suggested that
NDMA should examine whether it can use helicopters and small aircraft," a Ministry
of Home Affairs official release clarified in the evening. A private channel interpreted
the Home Minister's statement as a criticism of the Ministry of Railways. |
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