Hope of Families who were hoping that their loved one would one day return from Uttarakhand massive flood devastation is crushed as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Vijay Bahuguna has announced that those missing with be presumed dead and compensation of Rs. 5 lakh will be given. Although the search for the missing would continue, he added.
Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of missing people - at least 2,000. Madhya Pradesh comes second with a little over 1,000 people missing.
Several others are missing from the states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana.
