‘STONES HAVE BEEN FALLING ON OUR VEHICLES AND THE STATE MACHINERY CLAIMS THE YATRA ROUTE IS SAFE!’

people died in flash floods in Uttarakhand in 2013 people died in 2009 when the twin villages of Jhakla and Leh in the remote Pithoragarh district were washed away

(Clockwise from the top) A part of a road washed away due to rains in Jaspur in Udham Singh Nagar district; traffic movement stopped owing to a landslide in Kedar Valley on July 24; a man trying to cross a mud-filled Gangotri highway in Uttarkashi...