Overview
- A landslide at the Vishnugad Pipalkoti hydroelectric site near Helang on August 2 injured twelve labourers, eight with minor injuries and four with serious injuries.
- Rescue teams from the State Disaster Response Force, police and health department personnel admitted all injured to Vivekanand Hospital, with one patient transferred to a Srinagar facility for a spinal MRI.
- About seventy of the roughly three hundred on-site labourers were working at the slide’s impact zone when the rockfall occurred.
- District Magistrate Sandeep Tiwari ordered an immediate suspension of all work and directed THDC to resume only after thorough safety inspections and worker protections are in place.
- The Vishnugad Pipalkoti project diverts Alaknanda River water through a tunnel to generate power at Pipalkoti and has faced persistent geological hazards, including flood damage in 2021.