"BSNL opened Helpline for getting last mobile location update in Uttarakhand. No is 1503 or 09412024365," BSNL CMD R K Upadhyay told PTI.
Despite the best efforts of the administration in a multi-agency operation, some 22,000 people are still stranded in affected areas following massive floods and landslide triggered by monsoon rains last Sunday.
Private sector telecom major Airtel too has started free of cost Emergency Alert Service for the customers registered in the Visitor Location Register (VLR) in affected districts.
Contact numbers of all government, army, paramilitary helplines to VLR customers are being provided through KCI (key customer information) SMS, it added.
A large number of telecom towers were affected in the nature's fury.
BSNL had yesterday said it will restore functioning of mobile towers at crucial locations in Uttarakhand within next three days.
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