new delhi the supreme court on friday asked the national disaster management authority ndma to apprise it within two weeks about the status of rescue operations in rainravaged uttarakhand ndma to file an affidavit on the status of rescue operations within two weeksa bench headed by justice ak patnaik said meanwhile the uttarakhand government informed the court that pilgrims who were stranded in the various affected areas of the state have been evacuated it said that only natives who didnt want to move out were there the bench posted the matter for further hearing on july 26 the court was hearing a pil filed by lawyer ajay bansal who has sought the apex courts directions to the centre and the state government to rescue people stranded in the flood hit areas in uttarakhand earlier the court had directed the centre and the state to make allout efforts to rescue the stranded people and to provide them with food and drinking water it had also asked the authorities to deploy sufficient number of helicopters for rescue operations the centre and ndma should provide all required resources to the state government it had said