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 de