A Month Since Chamoli Disaster, Scientists Have Reason To Anticipate More 07/03/2021
A view of the portion of the Rishi Ganga river ravaged by floods on February 7, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis.
New Delhi: A month after the disaster in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, in which at least 70 persons died and 130 or so more remain missing, scientists from three premier institutions have analysed more data to determine the likely cause of the incident – including heavy snowfall just before the day of the disaster, an overall increase in ambient temperature in the area, a rock and ice avalanche at an altitude of 5,600 metres, and a large volume of meltwater and glacial moraine hurtling down a narrow gorge.
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Uttarakhand glacier disaster: 136 missing people to be declared dead
The rescuers had recovered 68 bodies till Monday. File photo: Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel during a rescue operation in Uttarakhand. | ITBP/AFP
The Uttarakhand government has begun the process to declare the 136 people missing since the glacier disaster in Chamoli on February 7 as “presumed dead”,
The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
Uttarakhand Health Secretary Amit Negi issued a notification to this effect on Sunday, after which the government invoked the Birth and Death Registration Act, 1969. The act allows authorities to declare people dead before the specified seven-year period.
“In normal circumstances, the birth and death certificates are issued to a person at the place where he is born or died,” the notification said, according to