{"id":39309,"date":"2020-05-23T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=39309"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T05:41:54","slug":"cyclone-amphan-air-force-fully-prepared-for-relief-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/cyclone-amphan-air-force-fully-prepared-for-relief-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Amphan: Air Force fully prepared for relief operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of cyclone Amphan, as part of its quick response towards Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR), the Indian Air Force (IAF) continued to be on a high state of preparedness for undertaking relief operations in the eastern parts of the country. A total of 56 Heavy and Medium Lift assets comprising of 25 fixed-wing aircraft and 31 helicopters were earmarked by the IAF.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft \/ helicopters were modified with required equipment for undertaking relief operations and are on standby with crew for a quick deployment at various IAF bases. The Crisis Management Cell activated at Air HQ is actively coordinating with the Civil Administration and the NDRF teams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39316\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/allgujaratnews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Air-Force-2.jpeg?resize=696%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"440\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two C-130 aircraft airlifted four NDRF teams, two each from Pune and Arakkonam for Kolkata on 21 May 20. Along with these teams, 8.6 tonnes of heavy equipment \/ machinery required to undertake relief operations by NDRF was also airlifted.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of cyclone Amphan, as part of its quick response towards Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR), the Indian Air Force (IAF) continued to be on a high state of preparedness for undertaking relief operations in the eastern parts of the country. A total of 56 Heavy and Medium Lift assets comprising of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4368],"tags":[468,8445,2074,8446],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-ae1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39317,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions\/39317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}