-The Times of India DEOLI VILLAGE (Uttarakhand): Savitri Devi was pregnant with her second child when she lost her husband to flash floods in Kedarnath. She gave birth two months later. Today, her four-month-old son is both a source of joy and a constant reminder of the tragedy. Six months after the June 15-16 deluge, grief still hangs like a fog over Deoli-Bhanigram. Thirty-four women lost their husbands in this gram sabha,...
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Down a slippery slope in Uttarakhand-Bishnu Prasad Das
-The Hindu The devastating landslips were caused by the undercutting of fragile hillsides for highways rather than by dams, which actually helped mitigate the floods The natural calamity of June 16 through 19 that devastated the whole of Uttarakhand and large areas of Himachal Pradesh and western Uttar Pradesh - an area of almost 20,000 sq.km. - was one of extremely rare severity among all the hydro-meteorological disasters to have struck India. Intense...
More »Sulabh helps families hit by Uttarakhand floods -Kavita Upadhyay
-The Hindu Dehradun: "I am the only one left in the family now," says Vasundhara Devi, 32, whose husband and two sons are among those who have gone missing in the Kedarnath floods in June and are now ‘presumed dead'. Poonam Tewari, whose husband Suresh owned a restaurant in Kedarnath, says, "I only have a three-year-old daughter for a family now. I need money to educate her." Sarita Bagwadi's father and two...
More »57 men missing, Deoli-Bramhagram becomes a 'village of widows'
-The Indian Express Shirwani, Pitora, Deoli (Uttarakhand): Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram panchayat have reported 57 men missing, and the area is fast getting the tag of the "village of widows". For about six months of the year,...
More »Uttarakhand: Death toll uncertain, minister says 10,000 just an 'estimate'
-IANS DEHRADUN/ HARIDWAR: There was still no clarity over the number of deaths in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, with a state minister on Sunday not ruling out an "estimate" of 10,000-plus and chief minister Vijay Bahuguna putting the number of missing people at 3,000. Uttarakhand health minister Surinder Singh Negi did not discount assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal's claim on Saturday of the toll in the tragedy having crossed 10,000. "He (Kunjwal) has given...
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