Wednesday 6 January 2016

Kedarnath Disaster 2013

The kedarnath temple located at3584metr this is hindu's well known pilgrimage in dis rudraprayag Indian state of uttarakhand this trek,valley  is completely changed by 17june2013disaster I can't forget such that terrible disaster around more then 6thousands local and pilgrims lost their lives when I was there actually I was working there in aviation company as base camp manger disaster came two times one in evening at 7pm that one came by backside of the temple that distroyed badly some houses and hut of monks.sadu all night I spent out of the temple many pilgrims and local people entered inside of temple and it became full of by people so I couldn't go inside I was wondering here and there with some other people it was dark everywhere some people told me some baba.monk is left side of temple in flood'so water so I ran for there it was full by water till over knee I caught monk.baba ji and brought at safe place covered with blenket he was injured but after half hour I checked him found dead after around at11pm in night announced by temple committee please go in background of temple some people are trapped under broken houses so we went there also it was everywhere.mud bolders dead bodies I was searching injured people suddenly I found one more baba ji monk he was crying I gave comfort to him baba ji you are ok don't worry so we took him down in room i saw his forehead was cracked so brought an kind of scarf and fastend that slowlyit became morning I went in my room taking rest for some moments it was morning now 7am suddenly I heard people are crying bhago..runaway giving whistle running other side of kedarnath ji I thought what I do quickly climbed at building and came out at and kind of window it was not an proper window that called rosandan it was little space like in hanging situation I was there then I saw such terrible views water flowing till around ten feet dead bodies also going with water that disaster came for around ten minutes but destroyed everything brought big bolders.sand.mud i saved my life like this when I came down saw many dead bodies.after that in evening we found good weather helicopter came for rescue that was trying to land in close to temple but people rushed for sit so that couldn't land in these conditions and flew back down so next day we evacuated people through helicopter from over garruchatti asram  helicopters were not enough to take whole people down but they did full efforts as possible so next day army's huge Mi 17 helicopter came for rescue in that disaster I got big loss I lost my shop at rambara market it was on the way.trek of kedarnath ji there is no any sign of market shop was constructed by my late father that effected total my livelihood during of this time I was having some amounts of heli's tickets so honestly I did back to my boss many heli staff cheated their companies  said money gone in flood in that disaster I lost one of my good cusin friend bhupender from my village he was also working in aviation company before this job he was assistant of Mr Luke Whitmore one of phd candidate from US Emory university Luke is now proffersore in USA he knows well hindi even garhwali language too so he is quite familiar with local people of ukhimath-kedarnath valley he miss lots of to late bhupender and go in emotions in his sight bhupender was an learned person whenever he come to India he meet late bhupender's family he said he gonna write ebook over bhupender and his past moments even he brought big photos.album of bhupender and his own pictures wherever they visited during of phd!