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  • Uttarakhand flash flood: Worker’s household finds severed limb at Raini plant website, and closure

    HER BROTHER enjoying within the snow within the hills of Uttarakhand will likely be a picture that may keep endlessly with Ritu Rani, 38, elder sister of Vicky Kumar, 32, who had video-called her after a trek to the Bhavishya Badri temple in Tapovan, only a day earlier than flash floods washed away the hydro energy undertaking’s institution workplace at Rishi Ganga on February 7.
    From Deoband in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Vicky had reached the undertaking website in Raini village of Chamoli district on February 5. Two days after the flash flood, his proper hand – from elbow to wrist – was recovered from the particles. He was recognized by youthful brother Amit Kumar from burn marks on his 4 fingers.
    On receiving data that his brother was lacking, Amit Kumar reached Raini village on February 8. “The next day, I came to know that a body part and some other bodies had been recovered from the debris near the plant site. I was consoling the family of Rahul, a friend of Vicky, who too had died.”
    Along with different our bodies, Amit Kumar additionally checked the recovered hand on February 10, and recognized it to be his brother’s from the burn marks and the three-layer clothes – from a jacket to internal put on – over the arm.
    “He was hardworking. We worked in National Electricals, a company in Haridwar, and used to live in a rented accommodation with our family. He had put off his marriage having committed to building a pucca house for our parents in the village. He was saving money for that,” Amit Kumar instructed The Indian Express.

    Vicky’s hand is the one physique of the 22 recovered so removed from totally different places that has been recognized, mentioned Yogendra Singh, Sub Divisional Magistrate, Bageshwar. In all, 55 our bodies have been recovered together with three our bodies as we speak from the tunnel within the hydro energy undertaking website in Tapovan.
    The Chamoli district administration handed over the physique half to Amit Kumar on February 11 after extracting the DNA pattern, which was cremated close to Manoharpur, their ancestral village in Deoband the next day. The administration has referred to as his father Yashpal Singh, 68, and mom Rajesh Devi, 67, for DNA sampling to Joshimath.
    Saharanpur ADM (Finance) Vinod Kumar, who has been designated the nodal officer by Uttar Pradesh, to coordinate with the Uttarakhand administration to find these lacking from UP, mentioned DNA samples of Vicky’s dad and mom will likely be taken for affirmation in order that they will obtain compensation.
    Ankit Kumar, Assistant Manager, Human Resource, of Haridwar-based National Electricals, mentioned that 4 staff together with Vicky, Rahul, Sandeep and Deepak Kumar have been despatched for overhauling energy mills on the two undertaking websites. “First they had to work at a site in Nandprayag. Due to shortage of essentials there, they left for the Rishi Ganga power project site. Deepak managed to survive probably because he belongs to the hill area of Pauri Garhwal and understands the terrain. “The other three were from the plains. Sandeep is still missing. The company will provide all possible assistance to their families as per the norms,” Ankit Kumar mentioned.
    Vicky had joined the corporate a couple of years again however had left as a consequence of well being causes and rejoined about eight months again.

  • Uttarakhand flash flood: NTPC counters state govt, says offered ‘all relevant inputs’ to rescue staff officers

    NTPC Ltd has stated it had offered “all relevant technical inputs” to rescue staff officers on Sunday itself and that, primarily based on this info, 12 employees had been rescued on the identical day itself. The firm’s assertion comes a day after Uttarakhand authorities stated officers of the facility utility had informed rescue groups that the lacking employees they had been trying to find had been in a distinct location to the place they’d been digging.
    However, the corporate claims that the operations had been at all times geared toward accessing the best location. According to NTPC, the lacking employees had been working within the Silt Flushing Tunnel (SFT) of Tapovan Vishnugad under-construction hydropower plant for concrete lining on the time of the flash floods within the area Sunday.
    “It is the same tunnel called (the) Silt Flushing Tunnel (SFT). As the progress for accessing SFT through (the) Intake Adit Tunnel is taking some time, efforts are also being made parallel to access the SFT by drilling a vertical hole from (the) Intake Adit Tunnel,” stated an NTPC spokesperson, in response to queries by The Indian Express. “From the very first day of (the) rescue operation, all drawings and relevant information were shared with the rescue teams by NTPC team and engineers at site,” the spokesperson stated. The spokesperson added that it was on the premise of the data offered by NTPC that 12 employees had been rescued from the SFT outfall tunnel within the night of the identical day.
    However, Garhwal Commissioner Ravinath Raman informed The Indian Express on Wednesday that rescue groups had been informed of the chance of round 34 labourers being trapped 180 metres “inside the Intake Adit Tunnel” of the plant. This prompted the groups to dig “in that direction,” he had stated, including that it was solely on Wednesday that NTPC authorities had knowledgeable them that the final identified worksite of the labourers was the SFT.

    District authorities and rescue officers informed The Indian Express on Wednesday that the “incorrect” info might show a setback to hopes of discovering survivors.
    The plant’s SFT is 12 metres beneath the Intake Adit Tunnel. “With this, the strategy of going up to 180 metres has been changed. Drilling will be done in the SFT and lights with cameras will be lowered into the area,” Raman had stated.
    “There was no work going on in the Intake Adit Tunnel, therefore there is least possibilities of the workers trapped in (the) Intake Adit Tunnel,” stated NTPC’s spokesperson.
    At the identical time, the precise location of the employees within the SFT “can’t be pinpointed as they may by all probability have rushed away within the tunnel when water/mud started ingress within (the) Tunnel to save themselves,” stated the spokesperson.
    NTPC has ascertained the “likely location” of the lacking employees primarily based on stories from their contracting companies as per the work deployment made on the day of the incident.

  • Uttarakhand flash flood: Cop’s physique washed up 110 km away, at ancestors’ ghat

    On Sunday, after the flash flood hit the Rishi Ganga energy mission web site in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, Manoj Chaudhary, 42, a head constable with the Uttarakhand Police, was amongst these reported lacking. A day later, his physique was recovered 110 km away, from a ghat close to the confluence of the Alaknanda and Pindar rivers in Karnaprayag, the place his ancestral village is positioned.
    “This is the very ghat where all our ancestors were cremated. The ghat is very close to our ancestral village Kanaudi. Ittefaq hai. Magar yeh to upar wale ki kripra rahi ki unki body apne purvajon ke ghat par pahunch kar ruk gai (It’s a coincidence, but it’s God’s grace that his body found its way to the ghat of our ancestors),” mentioned Anil Chaudhary, Manoj’s elder brother. On Tuesday, Manoj was cremated on the ghat with state honours.
    The Rishi Ganga river meets Dhauli Ganga, which additional downstream meets the Alaknanda.
    Chaudhary, who joined the Uttar Pradesh Police about 20 years again, opted to remain on within the hills when Uttarakhand turned a separate state. Until mid-January, he was on the police strains in Gopeshwar and was deployed on the Rishi Ganga energy mission web site solely 15 days earlier than the flash flood.
    “I got a call from the police informing me that Manoj and another policeman were missing from the Rishi Ganga site. I reached the spot and his colleagues told me the flood had washed his away. I was returning home, when I got photographs of four bodies recovered at Karnaprayag. Manoj was one them,” mentioned Anil, including that he hopes his sister-in-law Seema, a graduate, will get a authorities job on compassionate grounds.

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    Constable Suresh Bhandari of Dehradun, who was on responsibility with Manoj and two others, constable Balbir Singh Gariya (58) and constable Deepraj, mentioned, “Deepraj and I were at the main gate and Manoj and Balbir were in the rooms. I heard a whistling sound from Raini village and in a few seconds, a cloud of dust was in front of us. Deepraj and I started running up towards the road. I tried to call out to Balbir and Manoj, but they were probably stuck.”

    Constable Deepraj, 41, mentioned, “Balbir’s body was found near the gate, which means that he probably tried to escape but failed to reach a higher place.”
    Uttarakhand police chief spokesperson Nilesh Anand Bharney mentioned the households of the deceased policemen will probably be compensated as per authorities guidelines.

  • ‘…his telephone nonetheless rings’: Kin of staff lacking from Rishiganga undertaking await a miracle

    Image Source : PTI Flash floods wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on February 7.
    For the final three days, members of the family of round 40 staff lacking from the Rishiganga hydel undertaking website go to the rescue website every day hoping for a miracle and listen to some ‘excellent news’ about their pricey ones. With ache and agony writ giant on their face, the members of the family blame the authorities for not doing sufficient to hint the lacking folks. 
    A multi-agency rescue work, involving groups from Army, NDRF, SDRF, is underway since Sunday, February 7, when the sudden flood within the Alaknanda river system wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand. However, kin of these lacking are usually not glad.
    “It is four days since the tragedy occurred but all the focus is on restoring connectivity. Rescuing the missing people does not seem to be the priority,” alleged a person from Punjab, whose brother Jugal labored on the Rishiganga hydel undertaking.
    EXCLUSIVE: It’s difficult, however hope to rescue all caught inside Tapovan tunnel, says CM Rawat
    “Jugal’s phone rings when his number is dialed,” he instructed information company PTI.
    Image Source : PTIRescue work to drag out staff caught inside Tapovan tunnel is underway for the final three days.

    The loss of life toll within the catastrophe was 32 with six extra our bodies being recovered throughout the day, officers had stated as a number of companies raced in opposition to time to achieve the employees trapped inside a tunnel on the energy undertaking website and 174 folks remained lacking.
    The lacking folks embrace these working at NTPC’s 480-MW Tapovan-Vishnugad undertaking and the 13.2-MW Rishiganga Hydel Project and villagers whose houses close by had been washed away.
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    Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat has acknowledged that the rescue work is without doubt one of the most difficult the world has seen however stated he was hopeful that everybody contained in the tunnel could be pulled out alive.
    Rawat instructed India TV that rescue groups are preventing opposed circumstances contained in the tunnel. “There is mud flowing inside the tunnel from the other side as the teams keep clearing the way. But we are hopeful of reaching those inside the tunned soon,” Rawat stated. 

     
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  • Uttarakhand flashflood: Power plant official lacking, his son waits – with hope

    EACH TIME somebody talked about that one other physique has been pulled out of the particles, Salik Zargar pushed previous officers engaged within the rescue and reduction operations to examine if it was his lacking father. Each time, the physique was that of another person and the 24-year-old would return relieved, but anxious.
    Salik mentioned he needed to imagine that there was nonetheless an opportunity that his father, Basharat Zargar (52), was alive.
    At Raini village, round 8 km forward of Tapovan, lies the Rishiganga Power Plant. Like at Tapovan, many working on the plant and some residents of the villages round are lacking. However, officers on the web site say they don’t seem to be in search of survivors anymore.
    Salik, a scholar at a Noida college, and his uncle Shabir Zargar, who lives in Srinagar, reached the village after efforts to contact Basharat over the phone failed – after the flood hit the realm on February 7.

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    Basharat had been working with the Kundan Group, which owns the now destroyed Rishiganga Power Project, for greater than a 12 months, mentioned Shabir. In his capability as the final supervisor of the challenge, Basharat labored from Delhi however would usually go to the plant right here.
    “The plant was undergoing maintenance and was shut but a lot of people were here because machine maintenance was underway. I spoke to Basharat at 10.13 am on Sunday when he asked if everything was fine at home. I told him I was busy and would call back in 15-20 minutes. When I called at 10.35 am, his phone was switched off. An acquaintance called him around 10.30 and could barely hear his voice once before everything went silent,” mentioned Shabir, including that they are going to be staying right here for 2 or three extra days.
    Basharat’s household mentioned nobody from the Kundan Group has contacted them up to now. “We came here after seeing the videos. The least the company could have done was to tell us,” mentioned Shabir.
    Attempts to achieve Kundan Group representatives had been unsuccessful.

    Bhavan Rana, 32, the sarpanch of Raini village, mentioned two individuals from the village, together with his aunt, had been lacking since Sunday. “From the nearby village as well, four or five people have gone missing. Many of them were near the river when the slush and water came. We have no hope,” he mentioned.
    The worry of one thing comparable taking place once more is rife within the space and, in consequence, individuals are sleeping in greater reaches as a substitute of their properties.
    “This will continue for a couple of days, at least. We move up around 7 pm because everyone is scared that there will be another flood and this time we will not be saved,” he mentioned.
    Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha of the flash flood scenario in Uttarakhand saying as of seven pm on Monday, 20 individuals had been killed and 6 injured with an additional 197, together with 12 villagers, lacking after the deluge. He mentioned that on February 7, a landslide triggered a “snow avalanche” overlaying roughly 14 sq. kilometers, thereby inflicting a flash flood in Chamoli district. The excellent news nonetheless, Shah mentioned, was that there was no hazard of downstream flooding and the rise in water stage had been contained. —ENS, Delhi

  • Uttarakhand flash floods Live updates: CM Trivendra Singh Rawat conducts aerial survey, assesses scenario

    Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar advised The Indian Express that they’d managed to achieve 130 metres into the Tapovan tunnel. (File picture)
    Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar advised The Indian Express that they’d managed to achieve 130 metres into the Tapovan tunnel. “We do not anticipate much trouble after we reach 200 metres,” he added.
    Manjunath S R, commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, who’s coordinating the rescue operations on the website, stated, “Till yesterday, we had managed to go 80 metres into the tunnel and managed another 50 metres by Monday evening. The operation will continue the whole night. There is a lot of slush that needs to be removed. The armed forces, NDRF, SDRF and police are all working in coordination.”
    A glacial break within the Tapovan-Reni space of Chamoli District of Uttarakhand on Sunday led to large flooding in Dhauli Ganga and Alaknanda Rivers, damaging homes and the close by Rishiganga energy undertaking. Sources stated there have been 100 labourers on the barrage at Rishiganga of which at the least 50 are feared lifeless. About 125 persons are lacking, in keeping with the newest stories, whilst seven our bodies have been fished out.
    The state authorities has introduced monetary help of Rs 4 lakh every to the kin of the deceased, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat stated.