Reasi (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 31 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma on Sunday stated that Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha will ‘take steps’ to make Mata Vaishnodevi pilgrimage yatra ‘safe’ sooner or later days after greater than 30 folks misplaced their lives in a landslide that befell close to Ardhkuwari on August 26
Kumar advised ANI on Sunday, ‘Seven individuals who had been injured are secure now. A passable remedy is occurring for them. This is a painful, unhappy and regrettable incident. Almost 35-36 folks misplaced their lives. I specific my gratitude to LG Manoj Sinha for constituting a 3-member committee for an in-depth inquiry . This isn’t an informal yatra. LG Manoj Sinha will take steps to make this yatra safe sooner or later.’
Sharma visited Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Hospital to fulfill the injured a day earlier and urged hospital authorities to ‘present one of the best look after all’
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered the structure of a high-level three-member committee to research the causes of the landslide that occurred on August 26 close to Adhkuwari en path to the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.
Shaleen Kabra, Additional Chief Secretary of the Department of Jal Shakti, Jammu and Kashmir, will head the committee, which incorporates the Divisional Commissioner and the Inspector General of Police, Jammu, in keeping with an official order.
The committee has been tasked to conduct an in depth investigation and submit its report inside two weeks to LG Sinha, who can also be the chairman of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB), it stated.
The order has said that the Committee shall look at intimately the causes and causes behind the incident and level out any lapses, assess responses within the type of rescue and aid measures undertaken and recommend applicable SOPs and measures for stopping recurrence of such incidents in future, the order stated.
The order got here following the August 26 landslide, which occurred close to Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Adhkwari cave temple positioned on the way in which to the Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta Hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
A devastating landslide occurred close to the Vaishno Devi temple in Katra, Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, claiming greater than 30 lives and injuring 20 others. The catastrophe struck on Tuesday afternoon, round 3 pm, when heavy rains triggered a large landslide close to the Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Adhkuwari, about midway alongside the 12-kilometre trek from Katra to the shrine. (ANI)