fact suffered one of its worst floods in 100 years last year in which more than 200 people were killed. correspondent. has been one of the flood situation in southwestern india she explained how authorities are trying to help victims of a 24 hour helpline set up in new delhi by the national disaster response force the n d r f india does off the team is amongst the largest in the world than the 170 teams have been deployed across the country the military has also gotten involved and has been involved in dropping food packets to flood affected and it has so that s another challenging aspect of making sure that not only in relief camps but for people who are trapped in their homes for what is reaching them another really challenging thing about this particular event has been there have been dozens of mudslides good all across the state of which means that people have been trapped and which is why the death toll is continuing to be updated but of course the
expected to ease up you ve seen. so many people continue to be stranded. on trees and on. the way wherever it may be and prime minister and modi is there today doing an aerial survey of the state via helicopter even that was interrupted at one point because of the inclement weather so the situation is still is still very dire for many people. so it s still really dire situation there the moment how is the corolla government responding to the crisis well given the scale of the crisis where it s basically hit over ninety percent of the state the state government has needed a lot of outside support so you ve seen the armed forces coming in there s been about fifty one navy boats that have come in the army is also involved the coast guard the air force helicopters and doing rescue efforts that way releasing food packets and then you ve seen prime minister modi today actually announce
across the country and a lot of effort which if anything, they have been ramped up and now we have more than 1,000 rescue personnel in the area. most of them are thai, but we also have u.s. military teams, we have british cave experts, all of whom are trying to work out where exactly these 12 boys and their coach are and how to get to them . and we know there has been a break in the weather and helicopters have gone up, drones have gone out. so this is just a massive, massive operation. it is a massive situation absolutely. as understand, helicopters, drones. they are throwing all the resources that they can muster to try to find these boys. there is a lot of interest and as a result a lot of attention on finding them, on locating them. right now because of the flooding, they don t even know where they are in that complex. food packets have been dropped in the hope that the boys and coach might be able to access them and there are concerns
groups helping those getting back on their feet after the quarter. mark we heard from manisha about pakistan and the food packets. what is the red cross doing to organize all of the efforts? the red cross is having an international group on the ground here for more than 50 years. they have more than 5,000 volunteers since the earthquake struck. now, the model, the way the red cross works is based in the community. volunteers will be from the communities where they are working. that is not just in kathmandu, but areas outside the kathmandu valley. it is hard to reach. what are the things that people need the most right now? we are seeing pictures of rescues still underway. we know people need food they need clean water. in many cases, you have families
clothing on their backs. they sprawled throughout the entire compound which is sizable. there are tents, if we can call them, mostly made out of sheets. you can see the wire behind me turned into something of a make shift clothesline. they have been receiving some assistance, things like thin mattresses and these food packets that really contain supplements that are very high in nutrients. but just to give you an idea of how traumaized and terrorized the population here is, the capital has been fairly stable for well over a week at this point. we were asking people why they weren t going back home. well, it s because they don t feel safe. one woman who is pregnant, she is due this month. she told us that her husband after the first days of fighting when they thought the situation was stable went back home to try to retrieve some essentials, try to get water because there weren t supplies here and he was killed. that is fear that is still very for the population that has the