Thiruvananthapuram: Yoga guru Ramdev today stated that his organization has sent relief material worth Rs 50 lakh to flood-affected areas of Kerala and Karnataka. & we will be sending material worth Rs.1.5 crore more, He told to the leading news agency ANI.

He added that nation is proud of the rescue & relief operations conducted by our security forces in the flood affected areas: Yoga Guru Ramdev"We will be sending material worth Rs 1.5 crore more," he said.

Around 70 teams are present there with boats, life vests and food packets. “Places where light & helicopters can’t reach my boys have reached”, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, Lt Gen DR Soni on Kerala Floods.

Here are visuals  where Life in Idukki gradually moves back to normal. ATM services also resume. Work in progress to re-establish connectivity and restore communication. Visuals taken by ANI from Kattappana area.

The Navy ALH is also being used for the relief and rescue operations as part of navy's 'Operation Madad' which was launched to help the flood victims. It has now been deployed for rescue in North Paravu, as Times Now reported.

The rescue operations have been stepped up in flood-hit Kerala and Karnataka where several thousand are stranded and as many as 8 lakh people are displaced. The NDRF, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and the Air Force have been working together, with teams spread out over all affected districts, to offer relief to the flood victims.