Overview
- SDRF teams evacuated about 25 to 30 people to Koti Colony after Saturday's high winds snapped axle joints and tilted floating huts near the Dobra-Chanti bridge.
- The Koti Colony post team led by Sub-Inspector Narendra Rana used tourism department boats to bring everyone ashore with no casualties reported.
- Acting District Magistrate Varuna Agrawal ordered a high-level inquiry and halted operations at the site, tasking a five-member panel to report within four days.
- Early findings point to failed axle joints on the huts, and officials said there is no standard operating procedure for operating the floating units built by the tourism department and run by private operator Le Roi.
- With IMD orange alerts in place for May 4–5 across several Uttarakhand districts, the state tightened trekking rules, increased monitoring, and put highway and public works teams on standby for swift road clearance.