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  • Uttarakhand flash floods: High turbidity prone to have an effect on water provide in elements of Delhi

    Image Source : PTI Chamoli: Locals aiding in rescue and restoration work relaxation at Raini village, after a glacier burst on Feb. 7 in Joshimath triggered a flash flood in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
    Flash floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli have elevated turbidity of uncooked water fetched by Delhi from the Upper Ganga Canal to “unprecedented levels” which is prone to hit water provide in lots of elements of the nationwide capital, DJB vice-chairman Raghav Chadha mentioned on Sunday. In a collection of tweets, Chadha mentioned the Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi water remedy vegetation had been performing at decreased capability. He mentioned the provision is prone to be affected in south, east and northeast Delhi and urged folks to make use of water judiciously.
    “In the aftermath of #UttarakhandDisaster, turbidity in raw water fetched by Delhi from Upper Ganga Canal has increased to unprecedented levels (8000 NTU). As a result, @DelhiJalBoard’s Sonia Vihar & Bhagirathi Water Treatment Plants currently operating at reduced capacity,” tweeted Chadha, who can be an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA.
    The DJB is deploying water tankers in ample numbers and all potential efforts are being made to scale back turbidity in water, he mentioned.
    “Turbidity is the measure of relative clarity of a liquid. Turbidity is measured in Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU). High turbidity can be caused by debris, silt, mud, algae, plant pieces, melting glaciers, sawdust, wood ashes, or chemicals in the water,” he tweeted.

    Following a break in a glacier within the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, flash floods in Dhauliganga and Alaknanda rivers prompted large destruction of lives and property, final week.
    Chamoli District Magistrate Swati Bhadauria had mentioned 38 our bodies had been recovered from the flood-hit areas of Chamoli district whereas 166 are nonetheless lacking.
    The rescue operations are nonetheless underway to save lots of those that are trapped within the destroyed hydel initiatives within the space. 

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  • Uttarakhand catastrophe: Two extra our bodies recovered at Tapovan tunnel; toll rises to 40

    Two extra our bodies have been recovered from the slush of the Tapovan tunnel, the place rescue operations have been underway since February 7. The toll has now reached 40, whereas over 30 individuals are feared trapped within the tunnel. Around 160 individuals are nonetheless lacking after Sunday’s catastrophe.
    “Recovered 2 bodies from the slush of the main tunnel at Tapovan where rescue operation was going on since 7th February Uttarakhand police, SDRF and NDRF jawans are taking out the bodies,” DGP Kumar tweeted.
    On Saturday, Garhwal Commissioner Ravinath Raman held a gathering with officers of the NTPC, the Army, ITBP and NDRF to debate challenges within the rescue operation and the progress on the continued work. An NTPC official stated that drilling as much as the depth of 12 metre was accomplished however there was not sufficient house to decrease a digicam by means of that. Hence, one other heavy machine has been pressed into service at this time to extend the diameter of drilled space as much as 30 cm.

    District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauriya stated that drilling for rescue operation contained in the tunnel was persevering with and NDRF personnel on Saturday began on the lookout for individuals who went lacking close to the barrage of Tapovan energy challenge web site.

    A crew of State Disaster Response Force inspected the short-term lake fashioned at a top of three,600 m – about 6 km upstream of Raini village. With villagers downstream fearing one other flash flood on account of formation of the lake, the SDRF crew has developed a handbook early warning system by deploying groups of personnel in Pang, Tapovan and Raini villages. These groups will alert villages by satellite tv for pc telephones and public tackle system if any emergency state of affairs arises, officers stated.

  • 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.

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  • 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.
    ALSO READ: Collapse of rock mass weakened on account of freezing could have precipitated Uttarakhand flash floods: Scientists
    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

  • Collapse of rock mass weakened because of freezing could have prompted Uttarakhand flash floods: Scientists

    Image Source : PTI A car caught within the particles on the website of the Tapovan hydel venture as rescue works undeway, a day after a glacier broke off in Joshimath inflicting huge flood in Dhauli Ganga River, in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand
    A rock mass weakened because of years of freezing and thawing of snow could have led to the creation of a weak zone, triggering its collapse that resulted in flash floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday, preliminary observations by scientists of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) counsel.
    The crashing rock mass additionally introduced earth and lumps of snow with it. The friction could have resulted in heating, which may have prompted the floods, the observations counsel.
    Scientists from the institute performed a helicopter survey of the realm to search out clues as to what led to the lethal flash floods that swept all the things in its approach.
    So far, the flash floods have claimed 28 lives with round 170 folks nonetheless lacking. 
    Kalachand Sain, Director of the WIHG, stated the glaciers the place the incident occurred feed the Rishi Ganga river that in the end joins the Dhauli Ganga.

    “This area has a really steep gradient. Our observations counsel that the rock mass could have weakened because of freezing and thawing. This typically results in the event of a weak zone and fractures.
    “As the rock mass weakened, the glacier and snow came down crashing, it resulted in flash floods,” he stated.
    The steep slopes of the mountains within the area additional elevated the depth of the crash.
    Two groups of the WIHG comprising 5 glaciologists left for Joshimath on Monday to determine the rationale behind the incident.
    An institute beneath the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the WIHG research the Himalayan atmosphere and its geology. Sain stated an preliminary report may even be despatched to the DST. 
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  • Uttarakhand catastrophe: Three our bodies recovered from Rishiganga energy undertaking web site

    Three our bodies have been recovered from the Rishiganga energy undertaking web site in Raini village, Joshimath, on Tuesday.
    According to officers, the Kundan group, which runs the undertaking at web site, has supplied them with a listing of 44 individuals who had been on obligation on the plant on the time of the flash flood. Two police personnel had been additionally on the web site when the incident befell on Sunday morning.
    Villagers, nonetheless, say that there’s a probability that greater than 70 persons are caught underneath particles. “Around eight people from the nearby villages are missing. The water and sludge came with such force that we have no idea what to make of the disappearances,” stated Bhavan Rana, sarpanch of Raini village.
    Senior NDRF officers stated that work to clear the roads and the seek for lacking individuals will take no less than per week. The BRO, State and nationwide catastrophe aid forces, and police are assiting in rescue and aid work. The most important bridge that connects the Joshimath space to the villages nearer to the India-China border was destroyed within the flash floods. As a consequence 13 villages have been lower off by highway and requirements are being supplied to them by way of choppers.

  • 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.