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