Deputy Commissioner of Kinnaur JM Pathania said that 13 sorties of choppers had been conducted for evacuating 301 persons from Sangla, Reckong Peo, Pooh, Nako and Gyabong to Rampur on Thursday and efforts were afoot to airlift the remaining about 400 persons, as soon as possible.
He said that teams of officers, officials of revenue, horticulture, agriculture, animal husbandry and other departments had been constituted at sub divisional level to assess the loss caused due to natural disaster that struck the district.