State Agriculture Minister Harak Singh Rawat and Kedarnath MlA Shaila Rani Rawat distributed ex-gratia amount among the 53 missing persons’ relatives in Devli Bhanigram on Friday. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna was supposed to disburse the cheque among the beneficiary but his chopper could not take off due to inclement weather.
To assess the damage due to cloudburst on June 16-17 in Rudraprayag district, union government’s three member committee visited Agastyamuni and Gupkashi. During their visit they also interacted with the affected people and sought their feedback on government relief works. They also assessed the private loss, public property loss including infrastructure, road, electricity and potable water scenario. The team comprised of Union Surface Transport ministry’s Pankaj Kumar Maurya, Ministry of Environment & Forest’s Amit Mishra and state FRDC BP Pande, secretary Ajay Kumar Pradyot, DM Dilip Jawalkar, SDM lakshmi Raj Chouhan and SDM PC Dumka.
Chief Medical officer Dr KD Sharma appraised that central medical teams are serving in affected villages, which have lost their connectivity, of Rudraprayag district. In which Dr Durga Das (lwani), Dr PK Choudhary (guptkashi), Dr Rajiv Ranjan (phata), Dr Utpal Kumar Dev Sharma (Gwad), Dr Sunil Kumar (Ghimtoli), Dr Sunil Kumar Singh (Agastyamuni), Dr Sushil Kumar (Uchhadhungi), Dr Sanjay Mehra (Bhiri), Dr Sanjeev Kumar (Kalimath), Dr Rajesh Sodhi (Ukhimath) and Dr Vinod Kumar (Saterakhal). Besides it NGOs including Helpage India, Boon grupo, AIMS, Dera Sacha Sauda, Tata Chemical team and Aaradhan Institute are running medical camps in affected areas.
Food & civil supply in-charge said that 369 PDS shopkeepers have distributed rations in 560 affected villages so far. As per the report 715 person including 651 from Ukhimath, 45 from Jakholi and 19 from Rudraprayag are missing since June 16-17.