Migrant workers from U.P. are hoping that their missing kin, colleagues will be rescued
Shyamu Kumar (22) from Uttar Pradesh had joined work at the hydro project at Tapovan in the neighbouring Uttarakhand barely three weeks ago, but the damage caused to the project by the sudden floods in the tributaries of the Ganga has already thrown his life into uncertainty.
However, for now, he is more than glad to be alive.
Kumar, a construction labourer from Lakhimpur Kheri district of U.P., was on night duty on Sunday and sleeping in one of the designated tin rooms for labourers at a safe height above the devastation. In recent days, he was engaged in construction work at a barrage.
“When the flood submerged everything, my nephew woke me up saying ‘Uncle, the glaciers have cracked, we need to get away from here.’ The barrages were all submerged,” Kumar told The Hindu on the phone from Tapovan on Tuesday. He is still haunted by the spectacle of the mammoth and violent waves of…