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Nearly two weeks after disaster struck Uttarakhand’s remote villages in Chamoli district, the search and rescue operations are still far from over. While several army personnel, battalions of Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) and staff of state and centre disaster response forces (NDRF and SDRF) persevere to rescue workers and villagers along the basin of two rivers – Rishi Ganga and Dhauliganga, the hope of finding survivors is diminishing with each passing day. According to the information provided by the government on Friday, 61 bodies and 28 body parts had been recovered, out of which 34 bodies and one part have been identified. According to the local police, a report of 204 people missing has been registered. Villagers living in proximity, shocked by the magnitude of disaster, do not want to live in these areas in fear of more such catastrophic events. The Uttarakhand SDRF, to allay such fears, have moved to install an early warning system upstream in the Rishi Ganga river. T

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