Even as the State Government on Monday claimed to have restored power supply to 3,618 villages of the total 3,758 where it was interrupted since disaster hit the State, electricity supply is yet to be restored in 140 villages in disaster affected areas.
Interacting with the media, chief secretary Subhash Kumar said, “We have restored power supply to 3,618 villages and the supply to remaining 140 villages will be restored in a couple of days. Water supply was restored to 902 out of 968 affected villages and will be restored in the remaining villages in a couple of days.”
Kumar claimed that all the damaged roads in disaster hit districts would be repaired and opened by the end of September, excluding Rudraprayag district where it will take till October end to repair the massive damage.
Connectivity between Govindghat and Hanuman-chatti and Agastyamuni to Guptkashi by mule will be restored by July 15.In these areas, the roads for the light vehicles in disaster-affected districts, excluding Rudraprayag, would be reopened by September 15. The roads would be ready for heavy vehicles by September 30. Repairing and construction of the roads in Rudraprayag district would take more time and would be ready for heavy vehicles by the end of October.
Kumar said that disaster damaged 1,976 roads across the State of which 1,575 were reopened. Rest 401 roads are yet to be opened. Thus the state government restored road connectivity to the 3,440 villages which had lost road links. "Efforts are on to restore connectivity to rest 740 villages still disconnected to road network," Kumar said.
About the figure of missing persons, Kumar said the figure stood at around 4,000 which includes 795 from Uttarakhand. The CS said that no sorties could be carried out by copters due to rough weather for the last two days.He claimed that 40 persons were rescued from Badrinath area, while 150 are still stranded there.