‘…his telephone nonetheless rings’: Kin of staff lacking from Rishiganga undertaking await a miracle

Image Source : PTI Flash floods wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on February 7.
For the final three days, members of the family of round 40 staff lacking from the Rishiganga hydel undertaking website go to the rescue website every day hoping for a miracle and listen to some ‘excellent news’ about their pricey ones. With ache and agony writ giant on their face, the members of the family blame the authorities for not doing sufficient to hint the lacking folks. 
A multi-agency rescue work, involving groups from Army, NDRF, SDRF, is underway since Sunday, February 7, when the sudden flood within the Alaknanda river system wreaked havoc in Uttarakhand. However, kin of these lacking are usually not glad.
“It is four days since the tragedy occurred but all the focus is on restoring connectivity. Rescuing the missing people does not seem to be the priority,” alleged a person from Punjab, whose brother Jugal labored on the Rishiganga hydel undertaking.
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“Jugal’s phone rings when his number is dialed,” he instructed information company PTI.
Image Source : PTIRescue work to drag out staff caught inside Tapovan tunnel is underway for the final three days.

The loss of life toll within the catastrophe was 32 with six extra our bodies being recovered throughout the day, officers had stated as a number of companies raced in opposition to time to achieve the employees trapped inside a tunnel on the energy undertaking website and 174 folks remained lacking.
The lacking folks embrace these working at NTPC’s 480-MW Tapovan-Vishnugad undertaking and the 13.2-MW Rishiganga Hydel Project and villagers whose houses close by had been washed away.
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Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat has acknowledged that the rescue work is without doubt one of the most difficult the world has seen however stated he was hopeful that everybody contained in the tunnel could be pulled out alive.
Rawat instructed India TV that rescue groups are preventing opposed circumstances contained in the tunnel. “There is mud flowing inside the tunnel from the other side as the teams keep clearing the way. But we are hopeful of reaching those inside the tunned soon,” Rawat stated. 

 
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