Uttarakhand Power Project Damaged After Glacier Break, Many Feared Stuck

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India put many of its northern districts on high alert on Sunday after the “breaking of a part” of a Himalayan glacier, officials said, with people being evacuated due to rising water levels in a river that the glacier feeds.

“The Rishiganga power project has been damaged, causing the river’s water level to rise continuously,” the local police department in the state of Uttarakhand said on Twitter.

“People living along the Alaknanda River are appealed to leave the area the earliest.”

An alert has been sounded for all downstream districts, and people from Vishnuprayag, Joshimath, Karnprayag, Rudraprayag, Rishikesh and Haridwar have been warned against visiting river banks.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has asked people not to panic or spread rumours, and stressed that district administration, the police and disaster response teams were dealing with the situation.

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