Uttarakhand disaster: NTPC will pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to relatives of workers killed in its Tapovan project
State power giant NTPC said on Monday it would pay compensation of Rs 20 lakh each to the families of workers who died in the recent flash flood at its Hydel Tapovan-Vishnugad project in Uttarakhand. Details of the procedure for paying the amount to the families of the workers killed in the calamity are being worked out, NTPC spokesman RP Jayada told reporters.
A workforce has been established at the plant to coordinate with management and collect all the required information on each missing worker, he said.
He said that rescue work is on the warpath at the Tapovan-Vishnugad project site by various agencies to reach people believed to be trapped inside the tunnel.
Information is being shared in real time with the agencies involved in the exercise to expedite it, Jayada said.
The spokesperson said 325 people, including engineers, officials, scientists and geologists from NTPC, THDC, CISF, UPNL and their subsidiaries, are stationed at the project site to expedite rescue work.
Three more bodies were recovered from the flood-ravaged Tapovan Tunnel on Monday, bringing the death toll from the glacial disaster in Uttarakhand to 53.
Authorities said more than 150 people remain missing after the February 7 devastation, possibly triggered by an avalanche in the upper reaches of the Alaknanda river system.
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