In an effort to ensure connectivity with the disaster-hit locations on the damaged route to lord Kedarnath Temple from Gauri Kund onwards, police would start paving way to reach Rambara, which is still intact. At present, there is no way out, apart from chopper, to reach the devastated down that suffered rain’s fury.
Around 250 labourers would be pressed into service to ‘construct’ the road from Gauri Kund to Kedarnath. The laborours would construct the temporary way on the damaged and devastated tough route. A team of officials from different departments led by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) CID GS Martolia would monitor the construction of temporary way.
A decision to this effect has been taken by the State Government in order to ensure early cremation of the bodies lying along the route. After Gauri Kund, route to lord Kedarnath Temple is badly damaged. At various locations, rains washed away the patches of routes.
Martolia said, “We are deploying 250 labourers to make temporary way to reach the spots along the route ahead of Gauri Kund to Kedarnath Temple. The labourers are most likely to develop around 1 to 2 km temporary stretch in day. The police teams would carry out search operation in the spots.”
He further added that this way the team would try to reach the untouched locations along the route. “On the one hand, the labourers would build up temporary route; on the other police team would search the bodies and cremate them with full honour.”
He accepted that developing temporary route was a hilly task in tough terrains. But the efforts were on to ensure the connectivity to the spots presently disconnected to Gauri Kund. DIG said that the temporary route development up to Rambara might take more than a week. Developing temporary route was need of the hour to touch the locations, including Rambara, after disaster.