Sixty-four persons belonging to Uttar Pradesh are still missing almost a week after the floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, a government official said on Saturday.
So far, five persons from the State have been declared dead, while 23 others were traced, said Sanjay Goyal, U.P. Relief Commissioner.
The deceased have been identified as Awadhesh (19) of Lakhimpur Kheri, Ajay Sharma (32) of Aligarh, Suraj (20) of Lakhimpur Kheri, Vicky Kumar, a resident of Saharanpur and Vimlesh (22), of Lakhimpur Kheri.
Of the 64 missing persons, 30 are from Lakhimpur Kheri, followed by 10 from Saharanpur, five from Shravasti, four from Gorakhpur, two each from Raebareli and Kushinagar and one each from Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Shahjahanpur, Moradabad, Mathura, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Bulandshahra, Azamgarh and Amroha, the statement reads.
A portion of the Nanda Devi glacier possibly burst through its banks in Chamoli district on February 7. It appeared to have triggered an avalanche and a deluge that ripped through the Alaknanda river system in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas.
The UP Chief Minister has formed a committee of three ministers and sent them to Uttarakhand for better coordination with the state.
The recent flash flood in the Chamoli district swamped hundreds of people and wiped out newly constructed dams and bridges and two power projects in the Tapovan area of the district on Sunday. (Feb 7, 2021).
India Today’s Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) has analysed the study which shows that one-third of the tehsils in Uttarakhand (26 out of 78) are vulnerable to massive glacial floods, also known as Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF).