State disaster management department secretary Amitabh Kaushal confirmed that he had receiving information about the nine and they have activated official channels to trace them.
RANCHI: Fifteen migrant workers from Jharkhand – nine from Bathet village in Lohardaga district and six workers from Ramgarh’s Gola block -- are missing since the glacier break and subsequent flood in Chamoli district in Uttrakhand on Sunday, government officials in Jharkhand said on Monday. The state has also set up a control room and a helpline number for stranded citizens of Jharkhand.
Lohardaga deputy commissioner Dilip Kumar Toppo said the nine missing labourers -- identified as Jyotish Bakhla, Majnu Bakhla, Ubarnush Bakhla, Sunil Bakhla, Nemhans Bakhla, Ravindra Oraon, Deepak Kujur, Vikky Bhagat, and Prem Oraon -- were engaged in work at NTPC’s 520-MW Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project on the Dhauliganga river in the Himalayan state. Notably, more than 170 are said to be missing and about a dozen deaths have been reported in the incident.