# Over 1,000 Kerala staff in 24×7 Wayanad relief ops 2026-08-17T03:37:20+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet More than 1,000 government employees are working round the clock on disaster management and relief operations in landslide-hit Wayanad district, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's office said on August 4. The 24x7 activities are coordinated from the Civil Station at Kalpetta and a temporary control room at Chooralmala. The staff, mobilised into 15 teams, handle search and rescue coordination, relief material collection and distribution, food and medicine supply, counselling, technical team management, relief camps, and care for victims with medical conditions. They also collate information on missing persons, manage waste disposal and data. Specially assigned teams deal with recovered bodies, including identification, handover to families, cremation of unclaimed bodies, and autopsy paperwork. ## Coverage - thehindu.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Kerala government, Pinarayi Vijayan, Wayanad Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/over-1000-kerala-staff-in-24x7-wayanad-relief-ops/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/over-1000-kerala-staff-in-24x7-wayanad-relief-ops/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/