The district administration will earmark the land where the prefabricated houses will come up, a government order issued by additional district magistrate (ADM) Abhishek Tripathi said. Meanwhile, the situation in Joshimath is worsening every passing day with families leaving their houses and being shifted to identified buildings. Till date, 38 families have been shifted and relocated to safer places, officials said.“Till Wednesday, 29 families were shifted out of their houses. Nine more families left their houses on Thursday. Four families were shifted to municipality buildings while one each was shifted to a gurdwara in Joshimath, irrigation colony and tourist hostel on Auli road,” Nand Kishore Joshi, district disaster management officer, told TOI.
As on date, 561 houses across all nine municipal wards have reported minor to major cracks. Two hotels have been closed and nine buildings have been identified with a capacity to accommodate 385 people in 79 rooms, seven halls and one auditorium, according to information provided by the district administration.