Chamoli: Rescue operation carried out to search out the missing individuals within the Tapovan tunnel after the flood ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project web site
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Nearly 29 labourers from Uttar Pradesh, who have been working at Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli and went missing when a glacier burst triggered an enormous flash flood on February 7, have lastly been declared “dead”.
This will carry closure for the households, who may also now obtain compensation beneath varied schemes.
The subsequent of kin to the deceased labourers will get Rs 29 lakh every — Rs 20 lakh from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Rs 4 lakh from Uttarakhand Disaster Relief Fund, Rs 1 lakh beneath a beneficiary scheme of the Uttarakhand authorities and Rs 2 lakh every from Uttar Pradesh authorities and the Centre.
Thirty-three labourers from Lakhimpur Kheri district and one from Shahjahanpur district have been washed away by the flash flood.
Five our bodies have been later recovered. They have been recognized as Jalal Ali, 20, Vimlesh, 23, Avdhesh, 19, Suraj, 21, (all from Lakhimpur Kheri) and Sher Singh from Shahjahanpur. The remaining our bodies couldn’t be recovered.
On February 23, the Uttarakhand authorities had issued a notification authorising practically 140 individuals nonetheless missing, to be declared “presumed dead”.
After the missing 140 individuals have been thought-about dead in March by the neighbouring state authorities, the required data was supplied to them by the Kheri administration.
Thereafter, a gazette was printed in newspapers on April 23 to ‘search objection’. With no objection acquired, the demise certificates have been issued by Uttarakhand authorities.
Among the 29 missing labourers, 13 have been from Ichchanagar, eight from Bhairampur and one every from neighbouring villages.
Their households are but to obtain the demise certificates.
When contacted, Nighasan Sub Divisional Magistrate, Om Prakash Gupta, stated, “All the formalities are complete. The 29 missing labourers have been declared dead. No objections were raised after the gazette was published a month ago. The death certificate and the compensation will be provided by the Uttarakhand government and the NTPC.”
