Bihar to raise special battalion for disaster management
Patna, Dec 25 Bihar will raise a special battalion on the lines of the National Disaster Response Force to assist the state machinery in disaster management, protection of the weaker sections and restoring law and order during communal disturbances, an official says.
Special task units have been deployed to the Velistsikhe village of the Kakheti Region under the order of the interior minister Vano Merabishvili, where the population have been evacuated after the level of water in the reservoir of the river Cheremi raised, and the dam of the reservoir was damaged creating danger of flood to local population.