Joshimath Crisis: The regional officer of the CBSE and the secretary of the Uttarakhand board have been directed to allot examination centres to the affected students according to their convenience. aaa
Joshimath Crisis Update: Around 4,000 people have been shifted to safer areas. A report is being prepared by an expert committee and will be submitted to the Prime Minister s Office soon.
Chamoli district administration has started evacuating its government building located in Joshimath after cracks appeared in it. At the same time, PM Modi held a high-level meeting with experts on this issue, after which the central agencies seem to be becoming active. According to the information received so far, the Central Government has deployed one team of NDRF and four teams of SDRF in Joshimath city.
Joshimath has been officially declared a landslide-subsidence zone and over 60 families living in damaged houses in the sinking town have been evacuated to temporary relief centres so far, at least 90 more families have to be evacuated. aaa
Joshimath Sinking: Big cracks have appeared in the buildings of the complex, around the Lakshmi Narayan temple. Brahmachari Mukundanand, in-charge of Jyotir Math, said that cracks had appeared in the entrance of the math, Lakshmi Narayan temple and auditorium.