India’s national broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has restored services of its Radio Kashmir channel, which was disrupted due to unprecedented floods over the last week.

The worst floods of the last 50 years in the region have affected more than 500,000 people and caused a huge loss of infrastructure.

India’s Business Standard quotes an AIR executive describing how rising waters caused a complete collapse of broadcast infrastructure in Srinagar.

The station’s studios were almost overwhelmed with water, forcing the station off air.

Technical staff were dispatched from AIR headquarters in New Delhi to help restore transmission.

The team worked to ensure the FM transmitter at Shankaracharya Hills returned to air, reports the paper.

AIR stations in Jammu & Kashmir have been credited with saving lives by airing vital information to those affected by the floods.