Ramgarh: Ramgarh labour superintendent Digambar Mahto (42), who coordinated efforts to rescue and bring back stranded migrants from Chamoli, Uttarakhand after the devastating floods in February, died of Covid on Thursday. He is the first Covid casualty among government officials in the district through the pandemic. Ramgarh deputy commissioner Sandeep Singh said, “Mahto was admitted to the CCL’s Covid hospital on Tuesday. He was young, dutiful and a dynamic officer.” Dr N Pandit, the chief medical officer (administration) of the hospital, said Mahto died at 11am.
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Ramgarh: Almost a week after the Uttarakhand government had declared that all missing workers in the Chamoli tragedy were dead, family members of three out of the four missing workers from Ramgarh performed symbolic final rites. They immersed the soil brought from the debris site in a local river here. A family member of the fourth missing worker is still in Chamoli and is expected to return with the soil soon.
Of the four Ramgarh natives who died during the natural disaster, three workers were from Chokad village and one from Saralakhurd village under Gola block. They were working at the NTPC’s hydel power project site in Tapovan when the tragedy struck on February 7.