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| Uttarakhand tragedy: Nearly 6000 missing people to be presumed dead, says chief minister Vijay Bahuguna
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| INDIA
, 15-July-2013
4:55:18 AM |
| Dehradun: It is all but the end of hope for thousands of families as the Uttarakhand government prepares to officially announce the death of 5500 to 6000 people still missing after massive floods devastated the hill state a month ago.
Over 5,700 people still missing from 18 states will now be "presumed dead" so that their families can receive Rs. 5 lakh compensation, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said today. But the search for the missing would continue, he added.
"The list of dead will be sent to the chief secretaries of all states," Mr Bahuguna told reporters.
Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of missing people - at least 2,000. Madhya Pradesh comes second with a little over 1,000 people missing.
Several others are missing from the states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana.
In Uttarakhand, the majority of deaths took place between Kedarnath and Gaurikund, the site of one of India's holiest pilgrimages, an official told NDTV.
"We know the numbers that were in Kedarnath that day. Then we know normally how many people are in Rambara where the maximum deaths took place," said Rakesh Sharma, Principal Secretary in charge of rescue and relief operations, in an interview to NDTV.
As schools reopen in Uttarakhand, at last 30 villages still remain cut off, making it difficult to provide relief.
The state government says an alternate land route for pilgrims into Kedarnath being tried out by the Army is not likely to be feasible. The possibility of a ropeway between Gaurikund and Kedarnath valley is being examined, but only in the long term.
For now, the government is likely to limit the number of pilgrims on the Kedarnath route to 2,000, far less than the eight to ten thousand who frequent the route daily during the Chardham yatra.
In order to control the number of pilgrims on the route, the government is planning an online registration system and will stop pilgrims in Rishikesh if the weather takes a turn for the worse
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