"Each family will be given immediate interim assistance of Rs 1.50 lakh. Apart from the two hotel buildings which are marked 'unsafe', no other building is being demolished. Till now, cracks have been noticed in 723 buildings," the Secretary to Uttarakhand chief minister R Meenakshi Sunda
Uttarakhand Chief Secretary SS Sandhu on Tuesday conducted a meeting regarding the Joshimath landslide at the secretariat and instructed the District Magistrate Chamoli to keep a constant watch on the situation.
Chamoli district administration on Thursday asked Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. (HCC) and National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. (NTPC) to be prepared to shelter the disaster-hit families, migrating from the landslide region of Uttarakhand's Joshimath.
Uttarakhand government has abolished the system of revenue police and notified that the revenue villages are to be brought under the regular police system.
Gram chaupals were organised by the Uttarakhand government on the occasion of 'Good Governance Day' on Sunday with an aim of providing benefits of public welfare schemes of the central and state government to residents in remote villages and solve their problems quickly.
Waqf Board Chairman Shadab Shams on Thursday said that the Uttarakhand government is trying to rejuvenate the madrassas and that various steps are being taken to modernise the madrassas in the state.