Print Press Information Bureau Government of Ministry of Home Affairs 26-September-2011 17:06 IST

Sikkim Earthquake Update as at 1 P.M. Today

¾ The Number of deaths in the recent earthquake, as reported by the State Government of is 77. The Break up of death toll is as follows – East District‐13, North District ‐ 59, West District ‐04 and South District ‐01. 64 persons are hospitalized. The search and rescue operations teams of NDRF, Army and officials of the State Government are still on.

¾ The details of damage reported by the State Government (tentatively) in respect of houses, schools and hospitals are as follows :

Sl.No. District No. of House No. of Schools No. of hospitals damaged damaged damaged 1 North 6000 NR 07 FD 2 South 820 FD 21 FD NR (Relief camp 446 PD 41 PD opened‐14) 1582 MD 68 MD 3 East 6000 FD 201 FD 23 FD 9000 PD 4 West 1679 FD 64 FD NR 5327 SD 8342 PD Total 14994 FD 285 FD 30 FD 17788 PD 41 PD 1582 MD 61 MD 5327 SD

NR‐Not reported, FD‐Fully damaged, PD‐Partially damaged, SD‐Severely damaged, MD‐ Mildly damaged.

¾ 10 teams of NDRF consisting of 419 personnel along with necessary search and recue equipment are deployed in Sikkim. Teams stationed at Lachung and Chungthang area of Sikkim are carrying out rescue and relief operations. Team at and Chungthang recovered one dead body each yesterday.

¾ A medical team comprising 19 doctors (Surgeon – 4, Orthopedician – 6, Anaesthesian – 5, Neuro‐surgeon – 2, and medicine – 2) deployed by the Ministry of Health, Government of India continues to provide medical help.( 03 doctors continue work in Chungthang, 06 doctors at Distt. Hospital, Mangan and 10 doctors at STNM hospital, Gangtok).

¾ The doctors of the NDRF team organised a medical camp at Mangam. ¾ The State Government has opened total 85 relief camps. 2700 and 550 people have been provided shelter in two Army camps and ITBP (Pegong) respectively.

¾ A 5 member team of experts from NIMHANS, Bangalore to provide psycho‐social care is en route to Sikkim. The team is likely to reach today.

¾ Approximately 11,000 food packets have been air dropped so far in the northern part of North District. A total of 1500 food packets were airdropped on 25‐9‐2011.The airdropping of food packets today was held up due to inclement weather.

¾ A total of 22 sorties were carried out by helicopters on 25‐9‐2011. The following roads have also been opened for traffic: ¾ Sevok‐Gantok ¾ ‐Rangrang ¾ ‐ ¾ Rhenock‐Kupup‐Nathula ¾ Indra Bypass ¾ Chungthang‐Lachung‐Yumthang‐Yumesamdong (Road opened upto 5 Km from Chungthang) ¾ Namasa‐ Dombang ¾ Lachung‐Katao‐Patala (Road opened upto 18 Km from Lachung)

Road from Toong to Police check post i.e 12 Km ahead of Chugthang has been cleared on 26/09/11.Some roads are still blocked but open to some extent.Border Roads Organization (BRO) and Army Engineers are working for restoration of different roads.

¾ Due to heavy continuous rains, landslides occurred in Dzongu. No casualty has been reported. Relief work is being carried out by NDRF/State Police and NGOs

¾ Due to heavy rains, airlift and other relief activities is not being carried out in Chugthang, Lachen and Lachung

¾ Landlines and Microwave links are operational. The present status of mobile tower/BTS which are functional viz‐a‐viz the total no. is given as follows : Vodafone ‐ All fault restored Reliance ‐ 52 (54) Idea ‐ All fault restored Aircel ‐ 54(55) Airtel ‐ 67 (69) BSNL ‐ 106(122)

¾ A total of Rs. 14.21 crore has been disbursed as relief by the State Government till date. *******

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