TN Govt Monitoring Rescue of Mansarovar Pilgrims on Hourly Basis: Minister
Apart from 57, a Chennai-based travel agency took 49 pilgrims to Mansarovar yatra, and currently efforts were on to ascertain their travel plans and whereabouts, he added
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government was closely monitoring the rescue of state pilgrims stranded due to the catastrophic floods in Nepal and is also ascertaining the whereabouts of 49 others who left from Chennai, Minister A Rajmohan informed the Assembly on Thursday.
In addition to the 54 people from 10 districts of Tamil Nadu and 3 from Puducherry who had gone on the pilgrimage, it has come to the notice of the government that a tour operator in Chennai had taken 49 pilgrims to Mansarovar, taking the total number of persons embarking on the pilgrimage to 106, he said.
"The state government is monitoring the rescue and status of pilgrims on hourly basis, and currently steps are on to bring the 20 people who were rescued through Kathmandu," School Education Minister A Rajmohan told the Assembly, responding to a "call-attention" motion moved by the opposition parties on the subject.
Apart from 57, a Chennai-based travel agency took 49 pilgrims to Mansarovar yatra, and currently efforts were on to ascertain their travel plans and whereabouts, he added.
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