GSDMA refuses chopper service to trace body

The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority has turned down the demand to provide a chartered helicopter to trace the body of a man even as the grieving family is ready to pay for the service.

The Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) has turned down the demand to provide a chartered helicopter to trace the body of a man even as the grieving family is ready to pay for the service.

Mohit Shah,an SAP expert with Larsen and Toubro Infotech,had drowned in Mahi River during Ganesh Visarjan last Sunday.

As the family could not locate the body for more than two days,they approached the local administration

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to provide with the rescue machinery to fish out the body.

While the Fire Service Department of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation does not have a motor boat which can move in shallow waters,the familys demand for a chopper was turned down by local GSDMA

officials.

They said fishing out a body could neither be considered as rescue operation nor it is an emergency.

The administration,however,has promised other support to the family.

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We have assured the family that we would give all the possible help in finding the body. Helicopter services are not provided in such incidents because,technically,its neither a rescue operation nor an emergency, said Vadodara District Collector Vinod Rao.

An official from L&T said,We tried out best to get the air services so that we can locate the body without wasting time. But we were told that such services are not available in Gujarat.

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