J’khand man stranded in flood-hit Nepal, family seeks Centre’s help
Ranchi, A 41-year-old man from Jharkhand is stranded in flood-hit Nepal, with his family seeking the Centre’s intervention to trace and rescue him, an official said on Thursday. J’khand man stranded in flood-hit Nepal, family seeks Centre’s help Ramprasad Ghosh, a resident of Hyder Ali Road in Ranchi, had gone to Kathmandu two months ago to work on a hydropower project. “We had our last conversation with him through a social media call on Tuesday. When we saw the news of the flash floods, we tried to contact him through various sources since Wednesday morning, but he is still untraceable,” his 75-year-old father, Ranjit Kumar Ghosh, said. He said the family was spending sleepless nights waiting to know about Ramprasad’s well-being. The death toll in the massive flash floods in Nepal rose to 177, with authorities racing against time to find thousands of missing people, including 300 Indian tourists, in one of the country’s worst disasters in recent years. Ramprasad has been working on the hydropower project for the past six months, his sister-in-law Ditya …
