Railway officials pay homage to Manipur landslide martyrs
IFP Bureau28 Nov 2022
The railway officials paid homage to the martyred soldiers of Tupul Landslide at the Unit War Memorial on Sunday.
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The railway officials paid homage to the martyred soldiers of Tupul Landslide at the Unit War Memorial on Sunday.
Special class contractor, MTDC, W Ratan Kumar Singh has withdrawn Rs 70 lakhs of the project cost of Rs 5,01,05,337 on July 1 of last year and it has been 15 months since and even the foundation work is at a standstill without progress, LOWA stated.
Altogether, 17 Football teams/clubs are taking part in the 11 Men's Knock-Out Football Tournament.
Union Railway Minister Ashwani Kumar informed the House that the ministry has been taking necessary technical measures along the railway lines constructed in Manipur as precautionary measures.
The body parts believed to be of the missing villagers in the landslide have been sent to JNIMS morgue, Imphal, sources said.
PFA, Manipur stated that the signing of an MoU with North Frontier Railways indicates that the Marangching incident was not a natural disaster. Although the damage is already done, redoing the assessment will be helpful in preventing future disasters, it added.
The search operation to trace the remaining missing bodies at the landslide-affected site at Makhuam (Marangching) village in Noney district has been called off on Wednesday.
A social activist said a team of GSI scientists that inspected the landslide affected site in 2013 and 2017 had issued an alert to evacuate the area before June 28 this year (2022).
Minister Nemcha Kipgen stated that once Industrial Estate is functional in all the districts of Manipur, it will improve the industrial sector in Manipur.
"The government is trying its level best to find the missing bodies and the rescue operation will continue for the next two days followed by a review meeting on Saturday."
The survey team had recommended carrying out a reassessment of Slope Stability (Factor of Safety) Analysis for open cuts and yards of the Jiribam Tupul Railway Line.
No politicians or bureaucrats will have the guts or even the desire to advise surgeons on the methods to be used in a surgery! That should be in the case of civil constructions, and a minister just because he was a former contractor does not mean he knows all the technical requirements.
So far, 49 bodies have been retrieved and 18 were rescued out of 79 total affected by the landslide, official sources said.
Till Monday evening, the rescue team had retrieved a total of 47 bodies that were buried in the landslide debris while 14 remained missing.
Following the ceremony, the mortal remains of the subedar, identified as Sajit Subba from West Bengal, and the havildar, identified as Chandan Gurung of West Bengal, were flown to their hometown.
The chief minister thanked the injured Army personnel for their invaluable service to the nation and wished them speedy recovery.
MoS Education Subhas Sarkar extended his appreciation to the rescue team. Apart from the human rescue team, dog squads and sensor machines were added to make the search rescue mission more effective, he said.
The ministerial team included CAFPD Minister L Susindro Singh; IPR Minister S Ranjan; Water Resources and Parliamentary Minister Piyush Hazarikaa, officials and staff of health department.
'With morning rains on Saturday and expected bad weather to continue, the condition is still developing and the future is unknown'.
Every year during monsoon season, we have had landslides in the highways and roads in the interior parts of the state. However, casualty figures were minimal. So, we must say, the scale of disaster in the Tupul incident is unprecedented while also heralding many more devastating incidents in the coming future.