Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday his Government would adopt 25 villages of Uttrakhand that were adversely affected by heavy rainfall and landslide recently and the State Government would reconstruct these villages so that their residents could be rehabilitated.
The Chief Minister, who was accompanied by Haryana affairs in-charge and Congress national general secretary Shakil Ahmad, said those affected in Uttarakhand would be given financial assistance by the State Government. Haryana had been sending relief supplies in trucks and had also set up a helpline. The Chief Minister visited senior Congress leader Tejender Pal Maan, whose wife Pushpa Maan and two of their relatives recently went to Kedarnath but did not return till date despite a search was conducted to locate them. Hooda consoled Maan and other members of his family and expressed his grief over the incident. Meanwhile, as many as 999 persons hailing from Haryana have so far been rescued and out of them, 74 have been rescued on Sunday as per the information received from Haryana police control room in Dehradun. An official spokesman said no person hailing from Haryana has been found stranded as on Sunday.