Updated: Monday, February 8, 2021, 14:26 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 7: Teams of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the National Disaster Response Force were rushed to flood-hit areas in Uttarakhand, where a glacier broke off at Joshimath and caused massive flooding in the Dhauli Ganga river on Sunday, officials said.
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An ITBP officer said two teams of the force, comprising about 200 personnel, had moved to the affected areas from Joshimath. The border guarding force has units based in Joshimath as part of its mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
NEW DELHI: Teams of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the National Disaster Response Force were rushed to flood-hit areas in Uttarakhand, where a glacier broke off at Joshimath and caused massive flooding in the Dhauli Ganga river on Sunday, officials said.
An ITBP officer said two teams of the force, comprising about 200 personnel, had moved to the affected areas from Joshimath.
The border guarding force has units based in Joshimath as part of its mandate to guard the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
As news of the disaster came in, two teams were rushed from Dehradun to Joshimath, NDRF Director General S N Pradhan added. We are working to airlift three-four more teams from the Hindon IAF base near Delhi, he said.
A glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday, leading to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and causing large-scale devastation in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas. Over 150 labourers were feared dead as per site in-charge of Tapovan power project. Three bodies recovered, an ITBP spokesperson said.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Sunday announced Rs 4 lakh compensation for those killed by floods in the state, after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a hydroelectric dam down the Dhauli Ganga river valley on Sunday.
Local authorities said that at least 150 people are feared missing after a massive avalanche in Joshimath, which triggered a huge flooding in the nearby Dhauli Ganga River.