Nepali Embassy sends team to Uttarakhand for Flood Relief

KATHMANDU : The Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi, has sent a fact-finding team to Uttarakhand on August 21. According to a press release issued by the Embassy in New Delhi, the team consists of Yadu Lal Kharel, Counsellor in the Embassy, who was one of the two members who had gone to the area during the June-floods also, and Pushpa Raj Pandey, a Nepali social worker from Haridwar, who actively coordinated rescue of Nepalese nationals during the floods. The team is entrusted with the task of trying to find out about Nepalese detainees, if any, and seek consular access; taking up the issue of compensation with authorities in Uttarakhand getting further information about those under treatment in Uttarakhand  visit shelters where Nepalese nationals are kept, if any; and also trying to find out more about the missing Nepalese nationals in the state.The team reached Dehradun Thursday, and got necessary information from the Secretariat on floods there. According to the preliminary information received from the Secretariat in Dehradun, there are no more Nepalese detainees in Uttarakhand. Those who were detained under criminal charges during and in the aftermath of the floods have been released.