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Rishi Ganga Project down- “This melting of glaciers plants and other activities like and medical teams, as part of stream was waiting to happen has created a potential threat of roads were adding to the envi- the rescue efforts in Chamoli t least 125 people are miss- in the hydel plants dotted frag- water supply for hundreds of ronmental woes. flash flood in Uttrakhand on Aing with the number ile mountainous region of millions of people in countries BJP leader Uma Bharti has Sunday. Three helicopters and expected to rise after an Uttarakhand, environmental- including India,” said the also expressed concerns over specialised equipment were avalanche caused by glacier ists have said. researchers in their analysis, the dam construction spree in also deployed at the mishap site. breach near Reni village in In fact, a 2019 study pub- spanning 40 years of satellite the “ecologically sensitive” Two transport planes of Chamoli district resulted in lished in the journal Science observations across India, region around the Dhauli IAF to ferry NDRF troops and sudden rise in the water level Advances revealed that due to China, Nepal and Bhutan. Ganga river’s equipment are ready at in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rising temperatures because of While climate change upstream. Hindon. Also 40 marine com- rivers on Sunday morning. mandos will be flown from The Rishiganga hydro Mumbai. power project and NTPC’s $ Special teams of scientists dam on Dhauliganga were also of the Defence Research and damaged in the disaster. . "! Development Organisation According to official sources, ! "#$ . !"#$% (DRDO) were airlifted to mon- the avalanche took place at + itoring avalanches and floods. about 10 am and soon after that Rishiganga project site. About villages migrate seasonally. necessary help.” " for HP’s Kullu, Lahaul and The Indian Airforce has the Government issued alerts five kilometres downstream at The CM said, “President On being asked about the + $ & ,/,0! Spiti on the Manali-Leh and also kept several aircraft and in all areas along the the NTPC project under con- Ramnath Kovind called me damage assessment and State’s + Manali-Beas Kund axis and helicopters on the standby, Alaknanda and Ganga rivers struction in Tapovan more expressing concern about the requirements, the CM said at - + * fter a glacial break in the the Udaipur-Killar-Chamba while the Navy has flown spe- from Chamoli district down to than 100 persons had gone to disaster. Prime Minister present the main focus is on + ATapovan-Reni area of road was sent to the Ministry cialist divers of the Indian Haridwar. work. Scores of the workers Narendra Modi also phoned rescuing people and saving L()"(*" Uttarakhand’s Chamoli dis- of Home Affairs and National Navy to Uttrakhand. At least, Chief Minister Trivendra were able to move away on me twice, expressing concern lives. The State has all the nec- ! trict, the Defence Disaster Management seven teams of divers will help Singh Rawat, along with senior hearing the shouts of alarm as and assuring all the assistance essary resources for rescue and Geoinformatic Research Authority on Sunday. in locating and rescuing miss- officials, reached the affected the flood progressed. required by Uttarakhand. medical treatment, augmented "! Establishments on Sunday Meanwhile, in a relief for ing people, officials said here area in the afternoon to assess Seven bodies had been Union Home Minister Amit by the Centre in response to the issued a fresh warning of an the area hit by a glacier burst on Sunday. The three Army the situation. Talking to medi- recovered till the evening. The Shah also called twice to disaster. When asked about + avalanche in Jammu & in Uttarakhand, the India helicopters were carrying out apersons after returning to flood damaged one bridge at enquire about the situation the possible cause of the disas- $ Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Meteorological Department on reconnaissance missions to Dehradun, the CM said at the Reni and four suspension and assured all help. ter, he said the cause will be !(3 "! + Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Sunday said no adverse weath- assist the rescue teams on time when the disaster struck bridges. The road link to 17 vil- “Chief Ministers of Uttar ascertained later by experts as + Sikkim in the next two er is expected over Chamoli, ground to reach the exact spot about 35 persons and two lages has been severed though Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat now the focus is on saving days. Tapovan and Joshimath on to rescue stranded policemen were at the residents in seven out of these also called us and assured all lives. L ()"(),- The yellow warning issued February 7 and 8. people. Q R !! " ! # 1$-2!$-! $% sserting that the agitation citizen of India. Aagainst the Centre’s farm &"&' " 2 The Covid-19 inoculation laws is a people’s movement process for people aged above that will not fail, Bharatiya .3 % 50 will start in March, he said. Kisan Union leader Rakesh “We are not dependent Tikait on Sunday said there will !"( # ,/,0! only on the two vaccines as the be no “ghar wapsi” till protest- country is working on seven ing farmers’ demands are ) he Centre has no immediate more indigenous vaccines. met. *+ " Tplan to make the vaccines Simultaneously, we are also Tikait lauded the role of available in the open market. working on the development of “khap panchayats” (caste coun- The country has vaccinated more vaccines because India is cils) and their leaders in sup- nearly six million healthcare a huge country and we need porting the farmers’ stir. and frontline workers so far. more players and research to Addressing a “Kisan “Presently, Covid-19 vac- reach out to everyone,” he said. Mahapanchayat” near here, cines are being administered on Three of the vaccines are in the Tikait said the Government an emergency basis, under full trial phase, two are in the pre- should rollback the contentious observation and in a controlled clinical stage, one is in phase 1 farm laws, frame a new legis- manner. If the vaccines are and another in phase 2, he lation to assure the continua- released in the open market, said. tion of the minimum support there won’t be any control over “As on February 7, 2021, price (MSP) for crops and them. The decision will be till 8 am, total of 57.75 lakh release the farmers arrested taken as the situation (57,75,322) beneficiaries have recently. demands,” Union Health received the Covid-19 vaccine “There will be no ‘ghar Minister Harsh Vardhan said. under the countrywide vacci- wapsi’ till farmers’ demands are The Minister said the nation exercise. The cumulative met,” he said. country is developing seven vaccination coverage includes “Yeh jan andolan hai, yeh more Covid-19 vaccines and 53,04,546 healthcare workers fail nahi hoga (this is a people’s also working on further vaccine and 4,70,776 frontline workers,” movement, this will not fail),” development to inoculate every said the Ministry. he added. # 202$($ porters are itching to see the back of this Government. And rime Minister Narendra this is why the real parivaratan PModi on Sunday kicked off (political change) will take place his pre-poll campaign in West unlike the one that Mamata Bengal with a scathing attack Didi had promised 10 years ago on Mamata Banerjee but ended up giving a worse Government holding it guilty Government than what the Left of “innumerable fouls” and and the Congress gave,” he said. promising the people of the The people had expected State “optimum good gover- “Mamata (compassion)” from nance” once the BJP comes to the TMC Government after it power. “The people will bring came to power but they got the BJP to power replacing the “nirmamta (cruelty)” instead, TMC Government,” Modi said. he said alleging how the Chief He was addressing a polit- Minister was so intolerant to ical rally at the industrial town criticism that she put those of Haldia in East Midnapore behind bars all those who where he inaugurated a pletho- " % & % % ! raised their voices against her. ra of Central projects worth ' “She is even intolerant 5,000 crore, including Dhobi- $( * + towards slogans like Bharat Durgapur gas pipeline and % ! "#$ Maata ki Jai (hail Mother fishing hub. The PM referred to India),” Modi said reminding lingo of Bengal’s popular sports, like mal-governance, tolabaji show the ‘Ram card’ to the how on account of bad gover- football, and said, “Bengal is a (extortion),