DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand has released a final update on the number of people who went missing from Rudrapryag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts in the aftermath of the mid-June flashfloods and landslides. On Monday chief secretary Subhash Kumar gave a figure of 4,120 missing people on the basis of FIRs lodged at various police stations in the state's 13 districts and at the Dehradun-based Uttarakhand Missing Persons Cell.
Giving a statewise break-up, Kumar told TOI 852 people were reported as missing from Uttarakhand (including 652 from Rudrapryag district alone), 1,150 from Uttar Pradesh, 542 from Madhya Pradesh, 511 from Rajasthan, 216 from Delhi, 163 from Maharashtra, 129 from Gujarat, 112 from Haryana, 86 from Andhra Pradesh, 58 from Bihar, 40 from Jharkhand, 36 from West Bengal, 33 from Punjab, 29 from Chhattisgarh, 26 from Orissa, 14 each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, six from Meghalaya, four from Chandigarh, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two from Kerala and one each from Puducherry and Assam.
Kumar said a total of 421 children (including 168 from Uttarakhand) were finally updated as missing in the natural catastrophe that hit the three districts. He said the maximum number of children (146) was reported as missing from Rudraprayag district, followed by 96 from Uttar Pradesh, 34 from Rajasthan and 32 from Delhi.
"As in many cases family members and relatives of those missing had lodged FIRs in more than one police station across the state, proper verification of the cases helped authenticate the actual figure of missing persons," said Kumar.
Regarding DIG Sanjay Gunjyal's statement before the Uttarakhand Human Rights Commissionthat about 6,812 people were actually reported as missing on the basis of 1,786 FIRs lodged at various police stations in the state and at the missing persons cell, Kumar said the figure had been reported much before the proper verification of the FIRs was done.
Ajay Pradyog, in-charge of the missing persons cell, said the government had earlier released a provisional list of over 5,100 people reported as missing, but detailed verifications from different sources helped in arriving at the final figure of 4,120.
A senior IAS officer said the Uttarakhand government had asked other state governments to help update the actual number of missing people.
Rs 3.36 cr cash recovered from Kedarnath
IG (law and order) R S Meena said a total of Rs 3.36 crore kept in a cash box at an SBI branch have been recovered from the debris in Kedarnath since the mid-June catastrophe. Meena told TOI while Rs 1.46 crore was found from outside the SBI branch a couple of days after the flash floods, Rs 1.90 crore was recovered from the debris in Kedarnath a day after puja was performed there on September 11. "This amount locked in a cash box was unearthed from the debris during the reconstruction work in the Kedarnath area," said Meena.
Giving a statewise break-up, Kumar told TOI 852 people were reported as missing from Uttarakhand (including 652 from Rudrapryag district alone), 1,150 from Uttar Pradesh, 542 from Madhya Pradesh, 511 from Rajasthan, 216 from Delhi, 163 from Maharashtra, 129 from Gujarat, 112 from Haryana, 86 from Andhra Pradesh, 58 from Bihar, 40 from Jharkhand, 36 from West Bengal, 33 from Punjab, 29 from Chhattisgarh, 26 from Orissa, 14 each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, six from Meghalaya, four from Chandigarh, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two from Kerala and one each from Puducherry and Assam.
Kumar said a total of 421 children (including 168 from Uttarakhand) were finally updated as missing in the natural catastrophe that hit the three districts. He said the maximum number of children (146) was reported as missing from Rudraprayag district, followed by 96 from Uttar Pradesh, 34 from Rajasthan and 32 from Delhi.
"As in many cases family members and relatives of those missing had lodged FIRs in more than one police station across the state, proper verification of the cases helped authenticate the actual figure of missing persons," said Kumar.
Regarding DIG Sanjay Gunjyal's statement before the Uttarakhand Human Rights Commissionthat about 6,812 people were actually reported as missing on the basis of 1,786 FIRs lodged at various police stations in the state and at the missing persons cell, Kumar said the figure had been reported much before the proper verification of the FIRs was done.
Ajay Pradyog, in-charge of the missing persons cell, said the government had earlier released a provisional list of over 5,100 people reported as missing, but detailed verifications from different sources helped in arriving at the final figure of 4,120.
A senior IAS officer said the Uttarakhand government had asked other state governments to help update the actual number of missing people.
Rs 3.36 cr cash recovered from Kedarnath
IG (law and order) R S Meena said a total of Rs 3.36 crore kept in a cash box at an SBI branch have been recovered from the debris in Kedarnath since the mid-June catastrophe. Meena told TOI while Rs 1.46 crore was found from outside the SBI branch a couple of days after the flash floods, Rs 1.90 crore was recovered from the debris in Kedarnath a day after puja was performed there on September 11. "This amount locked in a cash box was unearthed from the debris during the reconstruction work in the Kedarnath area," said Meena.
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