Sikkim: Engineers undertake survey of buildings’ structure

Till the last reports came in,the engineers have identified four such building with weak structure in Gangtok city. “We will issue a notice tomorrow and the buildings will be vacated soon. After all the residents are evacuated from those buildings,we will pull down the structure,” said the official.

Meanwhile,the Indian Army has deployed more than 100 troops of its special force for carrying out relief operations in North Sikkim as most of the parts of the area are still cut off from the rest of the state. The troopers would be taken to the inaccessible areas in North Sikkim by Mi-17 choppers,said a senior Army official. Today,over four sorties with 22 SF troops each were flown to Chungthang and from there they were sent to further locations.

K S Tobgay,information secretary,said,“The death toll is 77 now. Two helicopters took six sorties over Jhongu in North Sikkim and foodgrains and food packets were dropped. We have flown the stranded tourists from Lachung and Lachen valley also. But the road connectivity is yet to be restored from Mangan to upper part of North Sikkim.”