Some footbridges were washed away after the flash floods in Uttarakhand. (Photo: ANI)
After the Uttarakhand flash floods cut off various villages from other parts of the region, Indian Army has started using trolleys to transport people from one point to another. A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We ve built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity, news agency ANI quoted Major Utkarsh Shukla as saying.
Uttarakhand: Indian Army uses trolley to connect villages cut off after glacier burst in Chamoli A footbridge was broken due to flash floods, leaving people in villages disconnected. We ve built aerial river crossing to provide connectivity, says Major Utkarsh Shukla pic.twitter.com/aQEWqQeC6K ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2021
Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: BRO Builds 200-ft Bailey Bridge in Chamoli For Connectivity, See Pics
Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: BRO Builds 200-ft Bailey Bridge in Chamoli For Connectivity, See Pics India | News18.com | February 13, 2021, 4:09 pm
1/ 11 BRO workers work for construction of a bridge connecting Mallari with Raini village, in flood hit Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (PTI Photo)
2/ 11 The Border Roads Orgnisation (BRO) is constructing a 200-feet Bailey bridge at deluge-affected Chamoli area in Uttarakhand to re-establish its connectivity with the Niti border. (ANI Image)
3/ 11 The Bailey bridge is the fastest the BRO can launch, however, subsequently it will make a permanent bridge for connectivity in Chamoli. (ANI Image)
India News: The rescue operations continued at Tapovan tunnel in Chamoli district on the sixth day following the glacier burst, informed the state government on F
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Dev Bhoomi, they call Uttarakhand. Going by the past 30 years, the gods must be angry. The 1991 Uttarakashi earthquake cost 768 human lives. The 1998 Malpa landslide left 221 dead. The number of casualties in the 1999 Chamoli earthquake was 103. The 2013 Kedarnath floods left 5,700 dead. Many smaller disasters punctuated these.
All these disasters relate to earthquakes or water activity. Often both. “The Himalayas are very fragile, crumbly and young. They are not the Alps. They are prone to erosion, landslides and seismic activity. The terrain means these things will happen, and climate change may worsen it,” says Rajesh Thadani, a PhD in Forest Ecophysiology from Yale. “If the administration calls it a natural calamity, that’s just lack of foresight. It is like sitting under a rock which you know will fall, and when it falls you say there is nothing we could have done.”