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  • Sumna glacier burst: One extra physique recovered, dying toll 11

    RESCUE WORKERS on Sunday recovered another physique from the location of the glacier burst at Sumna in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, taking the dying toll from Friday’s incident to 11. According to the district administration, search and rescue efforts had been nonetheless on in Niti Valley for seven extra individuals who went lacking on the time.
    According to the state police, there have been 402 staff of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on the website when the incident happened.
    A launch from Chamoli District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauriya stated 384 individuals have been rescued to this point after the catastrophe and 11 our bodies had been recovered. All the our bodies recovered to this point have been airlifted to the Joshmath Community Health Centre for post-mortem.
    Bhadauriya stated efforts had been additionally ongoing to take away snow in order that entry by highway can speak in confidence to the realm.

    The Indian Air Force additionally joined rescue operations on Sunday. It stated in a press release that it deployed Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters from the Bareilly and Sarsawa air bases for rescue efforts.
    It talked about that one other helicopter “evacuated a casualty of the glacier burst, who was suffering from double renal failure caused by internal injuries” and was taken from Joshimath to Jollygrant airfield in Dehradun.
    Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat had performed an aerial inspection of the affected space on Saturday and reviewed the progress of rescue operations at a gathering with officers of the

    Army, BRO, NDRF and district administration, providing all of them the assist wanted. Administration officers are tenting in Joshimath to watch the rescue operation.
    A day after the glacier burst, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke to Chief Minister Rawat and expressed concern over the incident.

  • Death toll in avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli rises to 11

    The loss of life toll in an avalanche close to the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 11 on Sunday, officers stated right here.
    Ten our bodies have been recovered until Saturday. One extra physique was recovered on Sunday and a rescue operation is underway, the district catastrophe administration workplace right here stated.
    Chamoli District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauriya and Superintendent of Police Yashwant Singh have been on the spot since Saturday to observe the rescue operations.

    Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar stated a complete of 430 BRO staff have been on the street development website when the avalanche occurred on Friday.

    Sumna, the place the avalanche occurred, is roughly 25 km from Malari village and situated close to the confluence of the Girthigad and the Kiogad, two streams that originate from the Dhauli Ganga river, which witnessed a calamitous avalanche in February, killing 80 folks and leaving 126 lacking.

    Part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Chamoli on February 7, resulting in huge floods, recalling a 2019 research that warned concerning the risks of local weather change and stated Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as quick because the begin of this century.
    The glacier collapse at Joshimath led to an enormous flood within the Alaknanda river system and precipitated large-scale devastation within the higher reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas.
    In June 2019, a research spanning 40 years of satellite tv for pc observations throughout India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, indicated that local weather change is consuming up the Himalayas’ glaciers.

    The research, printed within the journal Science Advances, exhibits that glaciers have been shedding the equal of greater than a vertical foot and half of the ice every year since 2000 — double the quantity of melting that occurred from 1975 to 2000.

  • Uttarakhand: 10 die in glacier break in Chamoli, 400 rescued

    The glacier burst close to Niti Valley in Chamoli district on Friday night resulted in an avalanche that killed 10 individuals, with the Army managing to rescue near 400. The Uttarakhand Police stated eight individuals have been unaccounted for, with dangerous climate affecting rescue operations.
    In a press release issued Saturday, the Army stated that at round 4 pm on Friday “an avalanche hit a location about 4 km ahead of Sumna on the Sumna-Rimkhim road”, an space with little habitation or communication amenities round 90 km from Joshimath, that has been seeing heavy rain and snowfall for the previous 5 days. A BRO detachment, two labour camps for highway building and an Army camp are situated close by, the Army stated.
    Given the blizzard, rescue may start solely late Friday night, with 55 individuals introduced out within the first batch, the Army stated. The operations continued by means of the night time, and within the late hours, 150 personnel of the GREF (General Reserve Engineer Force) caught within the BRO camp have been dropped at security. Eventually 4 extra rounds of rescue have been mounted, bringing out 37, 22, 9 and 19 individuals, earlier than operations needed to be halted as a result of climate.
    The Army once more launched rescue early on Saturday, at first gentle, with 93 individuals introduced out by midday.

    The Army stated highway entry to 4 to 5 places continued to be reduce off as a consequence of a number of landslides, and Border Roads Task Force groups from Joshimath have been making an attempt to clear the route from Bhapkund to Sumna.
    Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat performed an aerial inspection of the affected space on Saturday and reviewed the progress of the rescue operations at a gathering with officers of the Army, BRO, NDRF and district administration, providing all of them the help wanted.

    Rawat stated round 400 staff of the BRO have been working within the Sumna space. The CM stated that the NDRF in Ghaziabad too had been placed on alert mode. “I am in constant touch with the district administration and BRO,” Rawat stated, including that Home Minister Amit Shah had assured full assist to Uttarakhand.

  • Glacier breaks in Chamoli, practically 300 rescued up to now

    After a glacier close to Niti Valley in Uttarakhand broke off Friday, rescue operations by the Army managed to rescue practically 300 individuals who have been working at a Border Roads Organisation camp within the space until late within the night. The rescue work will start once more on early Saturday, as unhealthy climate circumstances pressured restricted the operations.
    Sources talked about that the operations continued to search out folks in batches.
    A BRO Camp “came under avalanche conditions during heavy snowfall in Sumna area of Joshimath Sector in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand” on Friday, an official stated. As the rescue operations started round 55 individuals “could be mustered at first count, blizzard conditions kept rescue operation at bay till late evening”.
    The official talked about that in an evening rescue operation “undertaken by the Army, another 150 GREF persons stuck in the BRO Camp have been rescued and brought to safety”. General Reserve Engineer Force works below BRO.

    The rescue work was happening until late on Friday night time “to locate the remainder persons still stuck under snow or stranded at work sites since late evening”.
    The official talked about that individuals have been discovered and rescued in batches, after the preliminary 55 after which 149, 4 extra batches of 37, 22, 9 and 19 have been saved and dropped at security, taking the whole depend to 291 through the night time.
    However, because the climate made it troublesome for the rescue work to be carried on, the operation needed to be halted and Army hoped to renew the work early on Saturday morning. The official stated that the climate had “turned pretty hostile” through the night time, and already greater than the estimated variety of folks, which was round 280, had been rescued. However, to “mop up the are” for any others, the Army personnel have been to “start fresh at first light”.
    Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat had tweeted in regards to the incident on Friday night. There have been reviews of a glacier breaking off in Sumna, Neeti Valley. “I’ve launched an alert on this regard. I’m in fixed contact with the district administration and BRO.

    नीती घाटी के सुमना में ग्लेशियर टूटने की सूचना मिली है। इस संबंध में मैंने एलर्ट जारी कर दिया है। मैं निरंतर जिला प्रशासन और बीआरओ के सम्पर्क में हूँ।
    — Tirath Singh Rawat (@TIRATHSRAWAT) April 23, 2021
    “The district administration has been instructed to get complete information about the case. For NTPC and other projects, orders have been given to stop work at night so that no untoward incident occurs.” He stated in a second tweet.
    The incident comes two months after flash floods in Chamoli district in February left dozens useless.

  • No imminent hazard in synthetic lake shaped after glacier burst in Chamoli: Uttarakhand Chief Secy

    Image Source : PTI No imminent hazard in synthetic lake shaped after glacier burst in Chamoli: Uttarakhand Chief Secy
    There is not any imminent hazard within the synthetic lake shaped after the avalanche in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand as the quantity of water is lower than anticipated and is flowing by a pure channel that has been widened, knowledgeable the Uttarakhand Chief Secretary on Monday.
    Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Monday held a gathering with Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Om Prakash and different prime officers through video conferencing to overview the standing of the bogus lake shaped in wake of an avalanche incident within the higher catchment of the Rishiganga River in Chamoli District on February 7.
    The Uttarakhand Chief Secretary knowledgeable that primarily based on the bodily evaluation of the bogus lake made on the location by a number of scientific businesses and satellite tv for pc knowledge, there isn’t any imminent hazard as the quantity of water is lower than anticipated and is flowing by a pure channel that has been widened, in line with a press assertion.
    The assembly was additionally attended by the Director General (DG) of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Member Secretary of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organisation, senior Power Ministry officers, Integrated Defence Staff officers and scientists from numerous Central businesses.

    The DRDO Secretary and the State administration have been requested to maintain a steady watch on the state of affairs in coordination with central and state businesses.
    Out of 206 folks lacking within the flash flood, our bodies of 70 folks and 29 physique components have been recovered from Tapovan in Chamoli district up to now, stated Chamoli Police.
    Moreover, the SDRF group in Dehradun consistently monitoring the state of affairs of the bogus lake shaped within the higher reaches of Chamoli district, at management room through the Quick Deployment Antenna (QDA) system.
    (With ANI inputs)
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  • Uttarakhand: Researchers arrive to examine synthetic lake over Rishiganga

    A group of researchers arrived in Pang village on Saturday to examine the factitious lake shaped over Rishiganga after the latest avalanche and gauge how massive a menace it poses to areas downstream.
    The group led by USAC Director MPS Bisht and consisting of 4 scientists every from the Geological Survey of India and Uttarakhand Space Application Centre will attempt to attain the lake on foot by Saturday night or Sunday.
    With roads within the space round Raini Gram Panchayat washed out within the latest flash flood and huge stretches was swamps, the group is being accompanied by a mountaineer from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering and SDRF jawans to make sure their secure journey to the lake.

    First group to achieve at lake: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) group reached murenda the place a pure lake is shaped after latest floods in #Chamoli, Uttarakhand. The group established the bottom camp, chosen location for Helipad. Another group with DRDO group to achieve quickly.#Himveers pic.twitter.com/JHldvqrW5F
    — ITBP (@ITBP_official) February 17, 2021
    “We will inspect the lake formed over Rishiganga by the huge volume of sludge that came from Rauthi stream due to the avalanche,” USAC Director Bisht instructed PTI.

    “We hope to reach Udiyari by the evening which is located above the lake. By Sunday, we may reach the lake to inspect it and take its geographical measurements. How big a threat the lake can pose to the population living downstream of Rishiganga is something that can be measured only by how much water it contains,” he mentioned.
    Sonographic gear from the Indian Navy are getting used to measure how a lot water is contained within the lake, he mentioned.

    Sonography specialists from Hyderabad are additionally anticipated to measure the quantity of water within the lake, Bisht mentioned.
    Bisht mentioned his group may even incorporate the findings of a DRDO group which has visited the lake into its evaluation.

  • Swami Ramdev all reward for Rajat Sharma’s Rs 64 lakh donation to assist flood-hit Uttarakhand

    Image Source : PTI (FILE) Swami Ramdev praises Rajat Sharma for donating Rs 64 lakh to assist flood-hit Uttarakhand
    Yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Thursday heaped reward on India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma for donating Rs 64 lakh in direction of flood-ravaged Uttarakhand. In a tweet shared within the morning, Ramdev mentioned that Rajat Sharma has set an instance for others and hailed his management. 

    Continuing his lengthy apply of extending assist to individuals hit laborious by pure calamities, Rajat Sharma, who turns 64 on Thursday (February 18), donated Rs 64 lakh for these affected by the catastrophe in Chamoli.

    The yoga guru additionally prayed for Rajat Sharma’s good well being and lengthy life.

    “Every patriot should take up the cause of helping those affected by the tragedy by joining the #ReliefWithRajatSharma campaign. Greetings to Rajat Sharma on his birthday,” he tweeted in Hindi.

    “Rajat Sharma’s journey of struggle to success gives inspiration to crores of Indians. He is a role model for many,” Ramdev mentioned on India TV.

    The catastrophe was triggered after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier burst by means of its banks in Chamoli district on February 7, resulting in an avalanche and a deluge that ripped by means of the Alaknanda river system within the higher reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas. So far, 58 our bodies of catastrophe victims have been recovered together with 11 from a tunnel in Tapovan, whereas 146 persons are nonetheless lacking.

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  • Rajat Sharma donates Rs 64 lakh for flood-ravaged Uttarakhand

    Image Source : INDIA TV Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV
    Uttarkhand witnessed large devastation on February 7 when a glacier burst within the Tapovan-Raini space in Chamoli triggered a flash flood within the Dhauliganga and Alaknanda river system.   

    The pure calamity wreaked havoc within the hilly state. Scores of homes have been broken, some fully demolished. Hundreds of individuals went lacking. Over 50 our bodies have been recovered. Uttarakhand, which was ravaged by floods and landslides in 2013, has to once more start the arduous job of rebuilding itself and wishes assist from every considered one of us.

    Continuing his lengthy apply of extending assist to folks hit laborious by such pure calamities, Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV, donated Rs 64 lakh on Thursday, February 18, which occurs to be his birthday. 

    Image Source : PTI (FILE)Glacier burst at Joshimath triggered a large flash flood in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.

    “Many people asked me how will I celebrate my birthday this year. It has been said in the Shastras “People stay for themselves, however those that stay for philanthropy is the true that means of life.” Labourers in Uttarakhand need support the most. On my 64th birthday, I am making a humble contribution of Rs 64 lakh for them,” Rajat Sharma mentioned in his tweet.

    Earlier in March 2020, Rajat Sharma had donated Rs 1 crore to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund) to bolster the battle towards coronavirus pandemic. 

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    Back in September 2018, then Union Health and Family Welfare minister JP Nadda inaugurated battery operated bus service for sufferers and their attendants coming for remedy on the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. The free-of-cost bus service was launched as a part of India TV’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. A complete of 10 battery operated buses have been later flagged off by Nadda, Rajat Sharma and India TV Managing Director Ritu Dhawan. 

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  • Rescue operation might wind up in 3-4 days: DGP

    Image Source : PTI Rescue operation might wind up in 3-4 days
    Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar on Monday stated he’s anticipating that the rescue operation in disaster-hit Chamoli might wind up within the subsequent 3-4 days. “I think the rescue operation may wind up in 3-4 days. By that time, we may be able to cover everything. But if the need be, the rescue operation may continue for more days, may be for another one month,” stated Kumar.
    Meanwhile, rescuers discovered 5 extra our bodies together with three from inside a tunnel of the disaster-hit Tapovan mission in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand since Sunday night time taking the full variety of our bodies recovered thus far to 55.
    During the excavation work contained in the tunnel, 9 our bodies have been discovered thus far, officers stated. Elsewhere, seven our bodies have been recovered from Reni space the place the Rishiganga mission was destroyed within the floods. With the restoration of 5 extra our bodies since Sunday night time, the full has gone as much as 55. Nearly 200 folks went lacking after the Feb 7 morning deluge.
    This is the primary time because the Feb 7 floods that the rescuers have been capable of finding our bodies contained in the tunnel. “We are expecting more bodies as hopes for survival are receding,” admitted a prime official. There remains to be no contact with the remaining folks trapped inside.

    DIG Nilesh Anand Bharne, who’s spokesman of the state police, claimed the rescue work had been sped up with the set up of some further machines like excavators.
    The rescuers are engaged on two locations – one contained in the tunnel and different on the stays of the Rishiganga mission in Reni. They have stopped drilling course of contained in the tunnel, stated Superintendent of Police (SP) Chamoli.
    After days of digging and excavation works, jawans of military, ITBP, NDRF and SDRF, who’re engaged within the rescue works, had managed open a sizeable portion of the tunnel. But the presence of heavy silt and sludge contained in the tunnel slowed down the excavation and digging work, prime authorities officers admitted. Rescuers additionally consulted NTPC officers to grasp the sophisticated design of the tunnel.
    As the our bodies began recovering from the particles contained in the tunnel, the rescuers are slowly digging the tunnel in order that our bodies mustn’t get hammered.
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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.