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‘You are living Gods’: Indian Army to first responders at CDS Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper crash site | India News

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Chennai: The top Indian Army official representing the five Southern States visited Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiri district on Monday (December 13) to personally thank and felicitate the first responders, Government machinery, and locals who risked life and limb to conduct search and rescue at the Mi-17 V5 chopper crash site. 

The chopper carrying Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 12 others had crashed into a hillside in the Nilgiris district on December 8. 

13 lives were lost in the crash, while the lone survivor Group Captain Varun Singh continues to remain in critical care.

Touring the Nilgiris, Lt Gen A Arun, General-Officer-Commanding, Dakshin Bharat Area, led the felicitation events and interacted with the first responders and authorities. 

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Madras Regimental Center (MRC), Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Army Hospital and the Nanjappan Chatram village were among the locations that he visited to formally thank and recognize the selfless service of the common public and authorities.

Speaking at the MRC, home to the Indian Army’s Oldest Regiment, Lt Gen Arun expressed his heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the entire Tamil Nadu government machinery. He emphasized the most brutal challenges and circumstances (terrain, weather, flaming chopper), under which the search and rescue were carried out.

Being a hillside that is not directly accessible by a motorable road, the victims of the crash and their mortal remains had to be carried to the ambulances that were waiting at the nearest accessible roads. Amid the blaze and heat of the explosion, the local residents and authorities had managed to conduct search and rescue. As first responders, local residents not only reached the crash site but had also alerted the authorities instantly.

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“It would have been impossible to recover the 14 victims from the crashed chopper in time, if not for brave people like you… In any accident, those who step up and help are equal to God.. For the 14 crash victims and their families, you are the living Gods,” Lt Gen Arun expressed in Tamil, in his address to the villagers of Nanjappan Chatram. 

It was at Nanjappan Chatram, a small settlement of estate workers, near the Coonoor town of the Nilgiris district, that the tragic chopper crash had occurred, as India’s top military leader was headed for the nearby Defence Services Staff College.

Pointing out how the villagers had used everything at their disposal to aid search and rescue, Lt Gen Arun thanked them for having used blankets, bedsheets, medicines, buckets of water to extricate the passengers and material. 

“Good samaritans like you can’t be found anywhere easily. Citizens like you inspire us (Defence personnel) to fight for the motherland.. Ordinary people can’t do what you did…,” he extolled the people of the Nanjappan Chatram village.

“@tnpoliceoffl health, revenue, EB, forest dept everyone helped at crash site. All men in uniform told me that d rescue was impossible without you villagers of Nanjappan Chatram. Pilot Grp capt Varun Singh is alive, fightng bcoz of you, you wer living Gods for the 14 ppl” he says pic.twitter.com/hbvFnMljj5

— Sidharth.M.P (@sdhrthmp) December 14, 2021

While serving officials of various departments were appreciated with letters of recognition, medals, medallions and by presenting shawls, the villagers were provided with essential winter supplies, such as rations, winter clothing, blankets emergency lights etc.

@adgpi provided letters of recognition, medals, shawls to all officials involved in rescue &relief. Whereas, first responders from d village (tea estate workers) were provided rations, winter clothes, blankets, emergency lamps.

Unparalleled support from locals, Lt Gen Arun says pic.twitter.com/IXLDcsHs5a

— Sidharth.M.P (@sdhrthmp) December 14, 2021

Among those felicitated and recognized were officials from Police, Fire Services, Forest Department, Health, Ambulance Services, Revenue, Electricity board, first respondents, Coonoor Shopkeepers association, etc. 

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