Uttarakhand floods: Union home secy holds review meet, assures central help to state
Hindustan TimesUnion home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla chaired a meeting on Thursday to review the progress of the rescue and relief work being carried out at the hydro project of NTPC at Tapovan on the Dhauliganga River in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli. Rescue teams stand near the Tapovan Tunnel, following the Sunday's glacier burst in Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river, in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. “The Union Home Secretary reviewed the action required for regulating the flow of water from a temporary obstruction which has formed upstream from the project,” a release issued by the Union ministry of home affairs said. Secretary of the ministry of power, director general of the Indo-Tibetian Border Police, chief of Integrated Defence Staff, members of National Disaster Management Authority, director general of the National Disaster Response Force, chairperson of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, chief executive and managing director of NTPC and scientists from various central agencies along with other senior officers of the MHA attended the meeting, the release added.