Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Thursday (July 14) informed that the Amarnath rescue operation has been called off and all the missing people have been successfully traced. He said, “A total of 15 people died and 55 were injured in this painful accident, out of which 53 were discharged from the hospital and two are undergoing treatment and they were also sent to their homes in a day or two.” Will go.”
J&K LG said that all the missing people have been traced. “Our PCR had received 200 calls about missing persons and later all the persons were traced, so there is no missing person left. “The rescue operation is over, and no more bodies were found in the rubble,” he said.
Manoj Sinha said that for future they are planning for more safe pilgrimage as the matter has been taken up with the engineers and digital mapping of the holy cave will be done to make the journey safe. “The Surveyor General of India will conduct Digital Contour Mapping (DCM) of the Amarnath cave shrine and its surrounding areas so that steps can be taken to prevent human loss due to natural calamities,” Sinha said.
“I have requested the Surveyor General of India to do digital contour mapping of the Amarnath cave shrine and its surrounding areas. The survey will recommend steps to be taken to prevent human loss in case of natural calamities in the cave temple seen on July 8,” the J&K LG said while talking to media persons at the Raj Bhavan.
He said a wall was built by the Irrigation and Flood Control Department where there was a flash flood last year, adding that “it is believed that there were casualties due to the recent cloudburst. Amarnath Cave Had it not been for the wall, the shrine would have been more.
When asked whether the increase in the number of pilgrims was done even though a committee constituted by the Supreme Court two years ago had fixed the number of pilgrims from both the routes at 7,500, the J&K LG said, “SASB, however, The number was recently fixed up to 10,000 pilgrims on both the routes this year as facilities were improved.”
Apart from NDRF, SDRF, JKP and other central forces who played a big role in the timely rescue operation after the cloudburst, the LG thanked the local people of Kashmir who helped the Amarnath pilgrims during the time of crisis.
He also said that those killed in flash floods due to cloudburst in Amarnath cave would get Rs 5 lakh, out of which they had insurance cover with Shri Amarnathji Teerth Mandal, they would pay an additional Rs 5 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased. will do. Manoj Sinha said the pilgrimage is going smoothly, and more than 1.5 lakh pilgrims have visited the holy cave to worship Lord Shiva.