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The Jharkhand government would send official teams to flood-ravaged Chamoli district of Uttarakhand to facilitate the safe return of the stranded people hailing from the state.
Family representatives of all those who are currently missing will also accompany the labour department teams for on-spot identification of the bodies, state government officials said.
State labour commissioner A. Muthukumar told local reporters that a family member or representative of those who are missing would also accompany the labour department teams.
Labour superintendents of all those districts from where they received information about missing persons would move to Chamoli with the family members. District administrations are making arrangements in this regard and coordinating with authorities in Uttarakhand.
As per the figures issued by the state control room, 14 workers from Jharkhand are missing since Sunday’s glacier break that triggered an avalanche and flash floods, washing away a dam and hydro power plant that was being constructed by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Tapovan.
All 14 missing were working at the NTPC project site. Of the 14, nine are from Lohardaga, four from Ramgarh and one from Bokaro. As many as 29 are stranded at different places, while some are on the way back. Officials fear that those missing may be dead, but there has been no official confirmation on them.
