Nepali mission's team reaches Badri-Kedar
NEW DELHI, AUG 25 - A team from the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi has reached Haridwar and Rishikesh to take stock of the situation of the missing Nepalis in the Uttarakhand floods , which ravaged the famous Hindu pilgrimage sites of Badri-Kedar some two months ago.
Embassy's Councillor Yadu Kharel, Pushpa Raj Pandey and Tara Chand of Nepali society in Haridwar and local journalist Lakhpat Rana are the members of the team that reached Haridwar today.
"We are now walking to Gaurikund from Son Prayag," said Pandey over phone to Kantipur journalist Devendra Bhattarai on Sunday afternoon. According to Pandey, they came across several Nepali people who were still searching for their lost relatives in the affected region of Haridwar and Rishikesh.
The local police have said that close to 500 Nepali pilgrims were affected in the calamity. After the floods in Badri-Kedar, Uttarakhand state government had made public a statistic, speculating that around 6000 pilgrims might have gone missing in the floods.
After more than two months of the floods, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the directives of Chief Secretary, dispatched a team from the Nepali mission in New Delhi to make a field study at the flood ravaged site.
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