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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, JAN. 2. The Centre today decided to send its team monitoring relief operations here to the tsunami-affected States to speed up the rehabilitation process and further assess the assistance required for re-construction. Besides the Union Disaster Management Secretary, A.K. Rastogi, the team would comprise senior officials from the Ministries of Surface Transport, Agriculture and Fisheries, the Union Home Secretary, Dhirendra Singh, said here today. The civilian officers would visit Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry from Tuesday and interact with the State officials to assess the damage. Mr. Singh said that nearly 90 per cent of those affected by the tsunami depended on fishing and that the Government wanted to urgently provide them with nets and boats. The team would finalise its report by the middle of the week on the basis of which the Government would fine-tune the rehabilitation process. The new Chief of the Air Staff, S.P. Tyagi, will visit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Tuesday. The Air Force is carrying out its biggest peacetime airlift operation. The IAF said that it had so far transported over 5,000 tones of relief material and rescued 5,000 persons from the tsunami-affected areas. It was also carrying out a survey of the damage caused . The Army today moved heavy ferries to Thiruvananthapuram for deployment in Alappuzha . One engineer's column has been airlifted to Car Nicobar for restoring and repairing road communication. Another task force will be airlifted tomorrow for the same purpose.
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