75 special teams and 5 helicopters are engaged in rescue works

CM Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan informed that a total of 1225 villages of Shivpuri, Sheopur, Datia, Gwalior, Guna, Bhind and Morena districts are affected by heavy rains and floods in the state. So far 1500 people have been evacuated safely from 32 villages of Sheopur district. Similarly, SDERF, NDERF, Army and BSF together have succeeded in evacuating 2000 people from 90 villages of Shivpuri and 5950 from 90 villages of Datia, Gwalior, Morena, Bhind. According to the information so far, efforts are on to evacuate 1950 people. Air Force helicopters were facing difficulty in rescue work due to bad weather. Again the helicopters resumed the rescue operations. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan was interacting with media representatives at Smart Park regarding the situation of excessive rainfall and floods in Gwalior Chambal division of the state.