Dehradun / Shimla: With more restored bodies and many of them were lost declared dead, victims in Uttarakhand Rain and Floods stood in 64 on Thursday.
Among those who were found dead or fear to die were nine trekkers, five of them at Kinnaur at Himachal Pradesh.
Nainital remained the worst hit in terms of the victim because the death toll in the district rose to 34, followed by Champatan District where 11 people had died.
Nearly 17 Tim NDRF, 60 Tim SDRF, 15 PAC companies and 5,000 police personnel are still involved in rescue operations and assistance in the Kumaon division.
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said the damage caused by floods and landslides over the past few days had been tentatively accessed at Rs 7,000 Crore for the country.
He added that the loss loss could exceed the 10,000 crore RS so the last estimate in the region, the body of five trekkers was restored in Kinnaur while two were saved alive.
It comes even when four more trekkers – all of Kolkata – reportedly died during the trip to the Sundhunga Valley on Kumaon.
Talking about Sundhunga Trek, Kapkot (Bageshwar) Sub-division of Paritosh Verma told Ti that a porter, Harak Singh, accompanied a team of six members had returned from the trip and told the administration that four trekkers had been buried alive in the snow while two is lost.
“We have sent the State Disaster Response Team (SDRF) and the medical team to the site.
We also saved 42 tourists from this region,” he said.
Extreme weather in two Himalayas has left the hordes of tourists stranded.
At least 80 tourists, most of West Bengal, Punjab, Delhi and Himachal, have been stranded in Cancel in the Himachal Spital Valley since Sunday when heavy snowflows blocked the Pantai-Kaza highway.
They have taken refuge in two Dhabas and the government’s rest house.
More than 100 tourists currently stranded in Darma and Byas Valleys in Uttarakhand and the district government has decided to transport it.
Himachal Pradesh’s authority said that the trekker’s body would be flown to Uttarkashi on Friday as bad weather prevented the sortie helicopter on Thursday.
The rescue team consisting of army and ITBP personnel in Kinnaur Regency has restored the body and saved two climbers.
Meanwhile, western disturbances are fresh and very likely to affect Hill declare from 22 to 24 October, with rain and snow which is quite extensive above the Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal and Uttarakhand, the department said.
Home Minister Union Amit Shah, after a air survey of affected areas in Uttarakhand, said that except for three roads, the traffic movement had begun to stretch.
Nainital streets, Haldwani and Almora have been opened for traffic.
Track tracks have suffered severe damage in one place and repair work also began.
More than 60% of electricity supply has been restored, he said.
“In this crisis clock, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken with the Chairman of the Minist of Uttarakhand many times and the central government has put all his strength to help devbhoomi,” Shah added.
The Interior Ministry’s survey team will visit the country to take stock damage, he said, adding that a number of Rs 250 Crore has been issued by the country’s center a few months ago by the Disaster Management Department.
He said the center had released RS 749 Crore assistance as the center center under the state disaster date (SDRF).
More than 3,500 people have been saved and more than 16,000 people have been evacuated to safer places as precautions, and there are no reports of losing the lives of every tourist so far, Shah said.
Toi has found that at least nine trekkers from outside the country have lost their lives since October 17 after extreme weather conditions.