Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed top officials to coordinate with the Uttarakhand government to ensure effective help in the search and rescue of missing persons in the Chamoli tragedy.
Yogi stressed that the UP government was committed to providing all possible help to the affected people, including UP citizens, in the hour of disaster. .
Reviewing the situation arising out of the Chamoli tragedy at a high-level meeting on Tuesday, the CM sent three of his ministers - Suresh Rana, Dharamsingh Saini and Vijay Kashyap to Uttarakhand and assured all possible help from his government. Besides, two top officers were also sent to the hill state to coordinate with their counterparts there. He also directed that a control room be set up in the Relief Commissioner’s Office in Lucknow to coordinate with families of those who were injured or missing.
After the tragedy occurred, Yogi also called up Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat and assured all possible assistance from the UP government to tide over the aftermath of the emergent situation.
The CM ordered that district-level control rooms be set up in districts whose residents were missing after the disaster and helpline numbers be issued in every district. The Home department was directed to contact the families of the missing persons from UP and extend all possible help.