In view of the silt, mud and boulders, the flow in Bhagirathi river slows down and a new lake of one kilometre formed

After the massive Dharali ecological disaster, the biggest challenge facing the authorities is the formation of a twelve hundred metre lake of silt and muddy water, the water of which is now increasing rapidly. If it rains further this lake will further accumulate more water posing immense risk to the remaining Dharali residents and the existing buildings.

This new challenge posed to the NDRF, SDRF and Army authorities after the formation of this one kilometre long Lake has also posed a fresh threat to Dharali and Harshil where about hundred hotels and other residential structures have already been buried up to forty to fifty feet.

A JCB machine busy here in the digging work had also been drowned in the river with an army jawan saving his life, miraculously.

Till now while thousands of people have been rescued and the dead bodies being retrieved, the NDRF and Army including ITBP jawans are busy making a new channels to divert the water of the lake away from the Dharali and Harshil locality to the next outlet.

Till now the number of sixty eight persons missing have been confirmed whose ” talaash” is being executed.

Till now the attempts to ease out the water of the newly formed lake have been unsuccessful but fresh attempts by digging two channels are being made.

The water flow due to the massive silt and boulders have receded , forming a new one kilometre long lake which is again a threat to the local population.

In view of the increasing level of the lake the new bridge built by the Army has also been submerged in the artificial new lake recently formed in Bhagirathi river.

Till now except the Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and union minister of state Ajay Tamta who have been to Dharali and Harshil including Bhatwari Uttarkashi looking after the relief and rescue operations and also reviving the blocked roads etc not a single member of parliament has visited the ecological CATASTROPHIC affected Dharali and Harshil areas. Anil Baluni Garhwal MP and Dhan Singh Rawat, minister however, had visited the Sainjee and Buraansi villages to distribute cheques to the bereaved families.