A case has been registered against the company responsible for maintaining the sewage treatment plant in Chamoli, where 16 people died due to electrocution on Wednesday, said an official.
As per the officials, 16 people died on Wednesday after they came in contact with the railing of an electrified bridge above the Alaknanda River in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, on Thursday, left for Chamoli to meet the families of those killed and injured due to electrocution a day earlier on the banks of Alaknanda at the Namami Gange Project site.
In this regard, District Magistrate Chamoli Himanshu Khurana said," Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs for the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the seriously injured in the Chamoli incident from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund."
"Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has given instructions to provide Rs 5 lakh to the dependents of the deceased and Rs 1 lakh to the injured without any delay," an official statement said.
"According to the information received today July 19, Some people lost their lives due to electrocution at approximately 11:30 am at Namami Gange project in Chamoli. A magisterial inquiry is absolutely necessary to get it done. Therefore, I Himanshu Khurana, District Magistrate Chamoli nomi
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday spoke with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and enquired about over a dozen deaths due to electrocution in the state's Chamoli district.
Condoling the incident of Uttarakhand's Chamoli, where 15 people were electrocuted, state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday said that orders have been given to conduct a Magisterial inquiry.
As many as 15 people were electrocuted to death after they came in contact with a railing of an electrified bridge above Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, officials said on Wednesday.