Central agencies and state monitoring situation in Uttarakhand, says Shah

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Amit Shah briefs the Rajya Sabha on the Uttarakhand glacier disaster: “450 jawans of ITBP, 5 teams of NDRF, 8 teams of Indian Army, a Navy team and 5 IAF helicopters are engaged in search and rescue operation. All concerned agencies of Centre and State are monitoring the situation,” Shah says.

Members of Rajya Sabha pay tribute to victims of Uttarakhand glacier disaster.  Earlier reports today said the death toll from the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 28 with the recovery of two more bodies, even as a multi-agency operation to rescue around 30 workers feared trapped inside a swamped tunnel at the Tapovan power project in Chamoli district continued on Tuesday, officials said.

Around 170 people are still missing after the Sunday’s disaster apparently caused by a glacier burst, according to the latest data. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said its personnel recovered two bodies from debris in Raini village on Tuesday morning.