The Maharashtra government has decided to relocate people of all landslide-prone regions in the state to safer sites in light of the mounting death toll from the Irshalwadi mudslide, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Friday.
on a statement to the legislature, Shinde said that the Raigad district’s tribal hamlet of Irshalwadi was not included on the list of landslide-prone places.
The number of fatalities in the tragedy increased to 22 with the discovery of six additional corpses on Friday. Over 100 individuals, according to the CM, remain missing.
The government decided today to relocate individuals from landslide-prone regions. They will get rehabilitation and be permanently relocated to a safer area, according to Shinde. He said that although before it had only been done in the districts of Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Kolhapur, the state as a whole will now evacuate residents from landslide-prone regions to safer locations.
The inhabitants of Irshalwadi were first relocated to a school, according to Shinde, but 60 containers were later ordered to shelter them. They will be housed in such containers up until they get rehabilitation, according to the CM.
According to him, state agency CIDCO has been directed to start building dwellings right once after land was located for their restoration.
Around 10.30 p.m. on July 19, a landslide struck a tribal settlement in the Khalapur tehsil of the coastal Raigad district, roughly 80 kilometers from Mumbai.
The village’s 48 homes, which are situated on a hillside, were at least 17 of them completely or partly buried in the rubble.
Because the hamlet, which is a popular hiking destination and is overshadowed by the Irshalgad fort, lacks a pucca road, earthmovers and excavators could not be readily mobilized, and the rescue efforts had to be done manually, according to authorities.
