Kolkata: The West Bengal government has made arrangements for airlifting 68 tourists from the state who are stranded at Lachung, one of the worst quake-hit areas of Sikkim.
West Bengal Disaster Management secretary Indevar Pandey told on Tuesday that helicopters would be engaged to bring the stranded tourists to Siliguri in West Bengal on Wednesday.
He said a decision had also been taken to constitute block-level technical committees comprising engineers in the districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and Coochbehar in West Bengal to identify the damaged buildings and take steps for demolition of those which were not fit for human habitation.
A total of 3,860 houses were fully damaged and 15,584 partly damaged due to the quake in these districts, he said.
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