Authorities airlift passengers from Ladakh and Jammu
By: Muzamil Bhat CK
Srinagar
The government of Jammu and Kashmir has been airlifting stranded passengers from various places, especially in the winter months. Recently they airlifted stranded people from Gurez.
Now Indian Air Force and state-run helicopter service provider Pawan Hans on Tuesday airlifted together a total of 146 people stranded at various places in J&K and Ladakh and flew them to their destinations, after their requests to the government.
Reports said that IAF’s AN-32 Kargil Courier transported 111 people while Mi-172 Pawan Hans helicopter flew 35 to their destinations.
According to news agencies in their reports about the airlifting of stranded passengers they have said in their reports on Tuesday as follows.
As many as 41 people were flown from Jammu to Kargil and 12 from Kargil to Jammu, they said.
Similarly, AN-32 aircraft flew 16 people from Kargil to Srinagar and 42 from Srinagar to Kargil, they said.
The Mi-172 Pawan Hans helicopter transported 32 from Srinagar to Kargil and three from Leh to Kargil.
The IAF has been operating C-17, C-130 and AN-32 aircraft regularly to airlift stranded passengers in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh due to the closure of the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway owing to heavy snowfall in January.
With Agencies inputs
