Three days since the earthquake struck Sikkim, the devastation still unfolding. With 20 more bodies have been recovered on Wednesday, the total death toll climbed to 112, mostly in Sikkim. Several hundreds are still believed to be stranded in the worst affected north districts of Sikkim.
Sikkim has suffered a loss of about Rs 1 lakh crore due to the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, said Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.
Aerial pictures showed that the earthquake ripped apart the landscape in the stretch between Gangtok and Chung Thang, causing cracks, landslides and much destruction. The pictures also showed the destruction at the Teesta Dam site where several people lost their lives.
At Chung Thang in North Sikkim, one of the worst affected sites, a school building one of the worst affected structures. Fortunately, it was a Sunday, so there were no students.
"I had constructed the school by collecting every single penny.
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| Quake has damaged property of around Rs 5 lakh," said the Principal of the school.
Around 80 per cent of the houses at Chung Thang have suffered damages with major and minor cracks. Several people have lost their lives and many families have been displaced. |
Quake aftermath: Many villages in Sikkim still cut off, thousands waiting for help (Source: NDTV)
Three days after a devastating earthquake measuring a forceful 6.8 on the Richter scale struck large parts of north-east India, rescue and relief teams are still trying to reach thousands of people trapped in remote areas.
Many villages in quake-hit Sikkim are still out of reach and thousands are said to be waiting for help. Rescue operations remain the biggest challenge as rain and landslides are severely hampering the efforts and bad weather is not allowing helicopters to land.
The earthquake death toll in India has so far crossed 90 and is expected to rise further. Most of the deaths have been reported from north Sikkim. Casualties have also been reported from neighbouring Bihar and West Bengal. The quake that hit at around 6pm on Sunday was centred on the Sikkim-Nepal border, 64 kilometres north-west of Gangtok. It also It also shook Nepal and Tibet. At least 20 people have died there.
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IGSSS through its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) team based out of Assam, North East India is also the Secretariat for Inter-Agency Group coordination in Assam and NE India. IGSSS has consistently responded to disaster and emergencies in collaboration with member agencies and Sphere India.
Members of IAG-Assam (IGSSS, ActionAid, WVI, NEICORD) have reached Sikkim since 19th September and currently assessing the damage at North Sikkim and worst affected parts of the state.
How IGSSS is addressing Sikkim Earthquake:
Striving to cover the gap of water and sanitation, IGSSS is planning for restoration of Community gravity water supply system. Traditionally the village water for drinking and sanitation are supplied through harvesting from the natural up stream of the village that is storage in the community tank. The villages collect the water from the community tanks for household uses. The water system that was destroyed by earth quake will be reconstructed and put back in placed. This will reduce to burden of fetching water from distance source.
House hold water storage and filter will provide clean and ready drinking water that will reduce the vulnerability to health hazard to earth quake victims.
Community assets Restoration: There is total destruction village connectivity due to earth quake. The emergency response will help the community to construct link road that will help to
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