A team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is on standby to assist the district administration in the demolition work, as and when required.
Here are the latest updates in this big story:
1) Hotels Malari Inn and Mount View, which have developed more cracks, will be demolished on Tuesday, officials said.
2) The areas where the buildings will be demolished have been vacated by the administration after they were declared 'unsafe zones'.
3) If being demolished in public interest I'm with Govt & admin, even if there are only partial cracks in my hotel. But I should've been given a notice& valuation should've been made. I urge for valuation, I'll leave: Thakur Singh Rana, owner of Malari Inn to ANI.
4) Of the two hotels, Malari Inn will be demolished in a step-wise manner today. First of all, the top portion will be demolished. It is being done because both the hotels have tilted and have come very close to each other due to the sinking: Manikant Mishra, Commandant, SDRF.
5) "Their demolition is essential because there are several houses… around. If these two sink any further, they can collapse… so experts decided to demolish," Manikant Mishra, a senior official with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), told news agency ANI.
5) The Supreme Court agreed to hear on January 16 a plea seeking the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand's Joshimath as a national disaster. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, however, refused to list the plea, filed by Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, for urgent hearing saying everything important should not come to it directly. “There are democratically elected institutions to look into it. Everything important should not come to us. We will list it on January 16," the CJI said.
-With agency inputs
