Amritsar, June 21, 2013: For the second day today, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) teams have been providing relief and rescue operations in the Garhwal region of Uttrakhand ,where the pilgrims and other residents, commuters have been trapped at places, Badrinath, Kedarnath and Hemkund Sahib.
In a communique forwarding to the chief Avtar Singh Makkar, the SGPC Additional Secretary, Daljit Singh Bedi, who is supervising the relief operations, said that SGPC medical team had set up a camp at Srinagar in Garhwal hills and the injured people are being shifted to Rishekesh, supplying free medicines and treatment.
Bedi said the SGPC have been organising 'Langers' at Rishikesh, Sirinagar, Paonta Sahib (Himachal Pradesh) and near Rani Pokhri airport.
He said the SGPC team is preparing food packets at Rani Pokhri and the same are being flown with the help of army helicopters and Uttrakhand Government to drop in the affected areas where the pilgrims are stranded. However the Langar arrangements are being contributed with the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) and the Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib Trust to facilitate the stranded pilgrims.
Daljit Singh said that the SGPC has also arranged for vehicular service for evacuating people from Joshi Math and Srinagar to Rishikesh.
It was also communicated to Makkar that by now over 3,000 pilgrims are still stranded at Gobind Dham, waiting for air-lift.