Union HM Amit Shah, UK governor n CM carry Ariel Survey of worst hit Kumaon region
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The union home minister Amit Shah and Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami jointly surveyed the highly ravaged areas in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand due to excessive rain and deluge that claimed around 60 lives during the last few days.
The areil survey of Home minister Amit Shah and the VIPs of Uttarakhand took place amid rescue and relief operations being carried out in the calamity hit areas by disaster management authorities and police etc to evacuate the affected people from vulnerable areas and ensuring connectivity of roads and repair of the bridges etc.
According to the state chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the excessive rains and subsequent deluge that resulted in loss of lives and damage to houses and properties making the life of the inhabitants completely standstill in the worst hit Kumaon region has resulted in the cumulative loss of worth Rs. 7000 crores.
The union home minister Amit Shah was accompanied by Uttarakhand governor Retd. Lt General Gurmeet Singh and several ministers as well including the CM Pushkar Singh Dhami in a helicopter with disaster management minister, Dhan Singh Rawat, union state minister of Defence Ajay Bhatt, that took off from the Jollygrant airport.
The situation in Nainital district, in particular is extremely disastrous and panicky especially around Naini lake, Dhobhi ghat, where according to the district magistrate Dhiraj Singh Gabriel due to the excessive rains and over flooding of Naini lake major landslides are taking place posing direct threat to the local population compelling the administration to evacuate more than 100 families to safer places from Dhobhi ghat.
About 28 persons are reported to be missing in Nainital and the total toll is of around 55 people with good number of injureds.
The excessive rains and subsequent deluge has resulted in several bridges and roads being completely damaged with rescue operations and repair work being carried out in full swing to ensure early connectivity.
In a tweet union home minister Amit Shah wrote that about 17 NDRF, 60 SDRF and 15 PAC teams including more than 5000 security forces personnel are involved in the relief and rescue operations of the inhabitants of Uttarakhand. I assure the people of Uttarakhand that the central government of Narendra Modi is standing with them wholly in this critical hour tweeted Amit Shah.
