Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy and Principal Secretary B.R. Meena will return today from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh. They will be replaced by Transport Minister P. Mahender Reddy and another senior IAS officer, Luv Agrawal, who will supervise operations of recovering the bodies of engineering students who drowned in Beas river.
MANDI TRAGEDY: NAINI TO RETURN , SEARCH FOR BODIES FUTILE
After a week-long stay since the tragedy that struck students of VNR Engineering College, the Telangana government on Sunday decided to relieve Narasimha Reddy and Meena by sending Mahender Reddy and Agrawal to take their places.
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Narasimha Reddy said that Sonar (sound navigation and ranging) equipment procured from the Navy at Visakhapatnam was deployed in the underwater search over four to five km in the river on Sunday but it did not yield any result. The equipment which was fitted to a boat will again be used today. He said 700 personnel of National Disaster Response Force, Army and the Navy were involved in the search operations for 16 students still missing.
