The incessant rains for the last 36 hours in the district have paralysed routine life in the district while the people residing in the remote villages of the district are living in fear of disaster. Although the water level of Alaknanda river in Srinagar is now flowing below the danger mark, the alteration of the river's course is posing a threat to Kedar Mohalla locality here.
A total of 36 roads are still blocked in the district due to which 1,839 villages are affected. According to the district administration, 309 roads of the district are open to traffic including the national highway-119 Pauri- Meerut and NH-121 Pauri-Dhumakot-Ramnagar.
Pauri District Magistrate Chandresh Kumar instructed all sub-divisional magistrates and other revenue officers to keep an eye on the forecast by the Met office.
Kumar said that all efforts are being made to open the blocked roads, but the incessant rains are causing delay in this and also affecting other roads open to traffic.
The 36 roads blocked in Pauri, including five roads under Public Works Department provincial division Pauri, three under PWD construction division Pauri, five under PWD construction division Srinagar, seven under provincial division lansdowne, five under construction division Dugadda, two constructed under PMGSY Satpuli, four under PMGSY Kotdwar, three of PMGSY Srinagar and one each road under ADB Pauri and Dugadda.
The DM further said that Rs five lakh each has been give to the families of Brijmohan (Thalisain) and Sandeep Singh (Srinagar), who had lost their lives in the Kedarnath disaster on June 16- 17 after which their bodies were recovered in Haridwar. In addition to this, the relief money of Rs five lakh has also been distributed to four out of 13 families whose members went missing in the Kedarnath disaster.
The Srinagar sub-divisional magistrate Raza Abbas said that Kedar Mohalla in Srinagar may be at risk from alteration in the course of Alaknanda river. He informed that the historical Keshorai Math is presently safe
following reconstruction of the damage wall.