{"id":15006,"date":"2020-08-14T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:07:22","slug":"kerala-cm-visit-idukkis-landslide-site-as-death-toll-rises-to-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=15006","title":{"rendered":"Kerala CM visit Idukki&#8217;s landslide site as death toll rises to 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><picture class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image sp-no-webp\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sia-780x470.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sia-780x470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sia-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image sp-no-webp\" alt=\"Kerala Governor, CM visit Idukki's landslide site as death toll rises to 55\" height=\"470\" width=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sia-780x470.jpg\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Idukki<\/strong>:\u00a0Kerala\u00a0Governor\u00a0Arif Mohammad Khan\u00a0and Chief Minister\u00a0Pinarayi Vijayan\u00a0on Thursday visited the site of Rajamala landslide in Idukki district as the death toll in the incident went up to 55.<\/p>\n<p>They interacted with survivors and local residents and evaluated relief work during their visit.<\/p>\n<p>Two NDRF teams, a full unit of Idukki fire and rescue team, a team each from Kottayam, Thiruvananthapuram, and a team that received special training are leading the rescue operations in Idukki\u2019s Rajamala, the District Information Office had said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday,\u00a0Kerala\u00a0Chief Minister had announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakhs to the kin of the deceased. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also expressed his condolences over deaths due to landslide and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs each from Prime Minister\u2019s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the kin of deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, three shutters of the Walayar Dam in Palakkad district opened by one centimeter each, due to the rise in water level. The current water level of the dam is 200.86 meters, while the maximum water level of the dam is 203 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains in several parts of\u00a0Kerala\u00a0triggered floods and landslides, which have wreaked havoc in the region over the past few days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google_news_bar\"> Subscribe us on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNfwhQsw6qSDAw?oc=3&amp;ceid=IN:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Google News\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/kerala-cm-visit-idukkis-landslide-site-as-death-toll-rises-to-55-1946503\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idukki:\u00a0Kerala\u00a0Governor\u00a0Arif Mohammad Khan\u00a0and Chief Minister\u00a0Pinarayi Vijayan\u00a0on Thursday visited the site of Rajamala landslide in Idukki district as the death toll in the incident went up to 55. They interacted with survivors and local residents and evaluated relief work during their visit. Two NDRF teams, a full unit of Idukki fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}