Rains, landslides in Uttarkhand , the death toll has gone up twenty five in continuous heavy incessant rains. The Met Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rain in next 24 hours. Meanwhile, six more people have been killed in bus accident in Almora district of Uttarakhand.
Flashfloods in the Ganga and its tributaries triggered by incessant rains for over 48 hours left a trail of death and devastation across Uttarakhand killing 30 people, injuring 19 and damaging 164 buildings.
Seven persons went missing and five vehicles including a chopper were swept away in the heavy showers which are still continuing at a number of places across the state, Disaster Management authorities in Dehradun said on Monday.
Uttarakhand is hot tourist destination and government untimely and late action poor performance in disaster management may cause adverse reaction from the tourism industry.
In such hours of crisis the Chief Minister is tight lipped no words of solace whereas the top executive needs to give clarion call to the people of the states to infuse a sense of belonging and assuring of government empathy towards the victim and their family members. National,State disaster management which spends lot of money in their drill and awareness program needs to come alive with more concrete to fight the natural catastrophe which occurs every year in North and East region of Hills.
Uttarakhand, Rudraprayag bore the brunt of the disaster with a maximum of 20 people killed there.Two persons each were killed in Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Tehri districts whereas three were killed in Dehradun and one in Almora.
A large number of structures including shrines, hotels, rest houses, commercial and residential buildings located close to Alaknanda caved in like a pack of cards in Rudraparayag district.
Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna who took information from district magistrates on the extent of damage caused by the flashfloods through video conferencing expressed grief at the loss of lives in the calamity describing it as “huge”.
Rescue operations are going on a war footing with the help of ITBP, BSF and the Army but the bad weather is a hindrance, he admitted.
Char dam yatra and Mansarovar yatra through Uttarakhand have been suspended which will be resumed after the weather clears up, he said.
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