On the instructions of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, a seven-member team of officials headed by Public Relations Minister laxmikant Sharma would leave for Uttarakhand on Thursday to rescue pilgrims from of Madhya Pradesh.
The members of the team are senior IAS officer Sanjay Goyal, senior IPS officer Pramod Verma, Uma Shankar Bhargava, tehsildar Chandrashekhar Shrivastava, Company Commander Ranjeet Rathore and personal secretary of the PR Minister Dighendra Bhargava, besides medical experts. The Chief Minister on Wednesday convened an emergency meeting of officials and decided to send a team of officials for rescue of the State's pilgrims stranded in the Uttarakhand flood.