Gangtok (Sikkim) [India], October 8 (ANI): Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Sunday thanked the Government of India for offering quick funds to the state amid the flash flood scenario.
CM Tamang asserted that the state and central governments are working collectively to revive normalcy within the state.
“We just had a meeting with MoS Home Ajay Kumar regarding the flash flood in the state. PM Modi, Union HM Amit Shah and the entire Central government are standing with the people of Sikkim. NDRF teams have been sent to rescue people,” CM Tamang stated whereas talking to ANI in Gangtok.
He additional stated, “The state government and central government are working together to restore normalcy in the state. Power supply in some places has been restored and we are working with BRO and other departments as well. I want to thank the GoI for providing immediate funds to the Sikkim government.”Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra at this time held a gathering with CM Tamang to debate the scenario amid the flash floods within the state.
“Sikkim is facing a huge disaster and there has been a massive loss to road and infrastructure. PM Modi and Union HM Amit Shah have been in constant touch with CM Prem Singh Tamang,” MoS Mishra informed ANI after assembly with CM Tamang.
Mishra added, “We have constituted a team in which people from agriculture, roads, water and energy ministries are included. Officials from ITBP and NDRF are also sent here. Union HM Amit Shah has released funds for SDRF and has promised to provide all possible assistance to NDRF as well.”A press release issued by the Army at this time stated that the Indian Army Corps of Signals has ensured well timed restoration of civil mobile communications as a part of continued help to stranded vacationers at Chungthang, Lachung and Lachen, North Sikkim.
Most of the stranded vacationers have been in a position to communicate to their household again dwelling, it added.
The assertion additionally shared helpline numbers to contact if any emergency arises.
“Following numbers are available for any query – Emergency Operating Center(EOC)- Helpline Number 03592-202461/201145, 03592-284444 (Gangtok), 03595-263734 (Namchi), 03592-234538(Mangan), 03592-291936 (Pakyong), 8016747244 (Soreng), 03595-250888 (Gyalshing) and 7001911393 of Nodal Officer (for tourists) and 8101426284 of Assisant Director. For all Army Personnel – 9906200205 (Nodal Officer, Army), ITBP-03592-231340, SSB- 03592-251015, SDRF- 03592-220545, BRO- 03592-259208 and ARMY- 03592-202228,” the assertion added.
An Inter-Ministerial Central group comprising senior officers of 5 Ministries of the Centre, particularly Agriculture, Road Transport and Highways, Jal Shakti, Energy and Finance will go to the State at this time to take stock of the bottom scenario, assess the damages and supply help wherever obligatory, based on an announcement from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The assertion earlier stated that Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) carried out a rescue operation proper from October third night time itself and evacuated greater than 175 individuals, and they’re working reduction centres inside their completely different camps. 40 individuals have been stranded in a completely cut-off space, they have been rescued by way of extremely harmful terrain and evacuated by way of tough rivers by way of cables and ropes.
Further 6 individuals have been rescued, who have been trapped on the opposite aspect of the dam tunnel. 68 individuals have been stranded at Zanak, which is 16,000 ft in peak, and everybody was rescued safely and delivered to the ITBP camp at Goma. Four stranded households have been delivered to Lachung BOP of ITBP and they’re tenting there.
As per the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority (SSDMA) report of October 7 as of 10 am, the demise toll was registered at 27 with 141 individuals nonetheless reported lacking. It stated 2413 individuals have been rescued, and 1203 homes have been broken within the flash flood.
It additional stated that about 25,065 individuals have been disaster-affected up to now and 6875 individuals have been shifted to reduction camps. The Sikkim authorities has arrange 22 reduction camps.
The Lhonak glacier within the Sikkim Himalayas burst on October 3, breaching one aspect of the lake resulting in the rise within the water ranges in Teesta and inundating a number of areas of the state. (ANI)