Overview
- Jhelum embankment failures inundated Srinagar-area localities and farmland, with authorities urging residents in multiple neighborhoods to leave low-lying zones.
- Jammu and Kashmir Police and the SDRF reported rescuing roughly 9,000 people, while Army units distributed food and essentials in parts of South Kashmir.
- Punjab authorities deployed drones to drop dry rations, medicines, drinking water and baby milk onto rooftops in cut-off villages across Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Ajnala, Fazilka and Pathankot.
- Aam Aadmi Party activity includes Arvind Kejriwal’s visit, a national appeal for assistance and a pledge by party MPs and MLAs to donate one month’s salary, with daily relief consignments sent from Delhi.
- AAP MP Ashok Mittal announced permanent LPU jobs for one member of each of the 43 bereaved families in Punjab and cited 196 relief camps and more than 20,000 evacuations.