find out how armed forces helped people during earthquake Gujarat 2001
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✨The Indian armed forces immediately swung into action on a war-footing, launching "Operation Sahayata", the largest ever relief operation to be undertaken in the world.
✨A disaster control centre was set up at the air headquarters in New Delhi to coordinate the relief work.
✨The IAF spearheaded the airlifting of supplies, while the Army provided the largest chunk of manpower to supervise distribution of relief.
✨helicopters airdropped food and relief materials to far-flung areas, which had no access, by road or rail.
✨In two days, the IAF moved as many as seven IL-76, twenty-two AN-32s, five HS-748s, six Mi-8s, two Mi-17s, two Mi-26s and twelve Cheetah/Chetak helicopters into Bhuj & Jamnagar air bases.
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