Palamu is to ready 55 temporary helipads for the coming lok sabha election.The temporary helipad is at the rate of minimum one each 21 blocks here in Palamu.
Some hard and difficult to reach locations fraught with dangers like that of extremism have more than one helipad.
There is one permanent hawai adda in Chiyanki barely 2 and a half kilometer away from Daltonganj. It is fit for choppers for all seasons but not for any even six seater plane.
Nodal officer of the Karmik Koshaang Kundan Kumar who is additional collector Palamu said 55 helipads will be used to land and take off all types of the chopper like Dhruv and others.
He said the longitude and latitude of the helipads have to be ascertained properly.
These helipads will be used in the event of extreme medical emergency or evacuation.
The medical emergency or medical evacuation can be of any nature like fighting naxals or having any climatic disasters etc.
Naxalism is on the wane but Palamu's past notoriety of left wing extremism hardly leaves anyone not to be careful and cautious about the lives of the polling parties and accompanying security forces.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election one chopper carrying polling parties and accompanying security forces instead of landing in the Burha Pahar area had gone to some territory in Chhattisgarh.
It was all for a misreading of the longitude and latitude etc then.
The chopper had to make a fast retreat to enable the team to be placed in time here.
