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.
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.
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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 Ghosh said.
"He had come home on leave two months ago and returned after spending 10 days," she said.
Ramprasad, who is unmarried, works as an administrator at the plant.
{{/usCountry}}Ramprasad, who is unmarried, works as an administrator at the plant.
{{/usCountry}}"He is among around 200 workers from different parts of the country working on the project," Ditya told PTI.
She said the family had urged both the state and central governments to trace Ramprasad and ensure his safe rescue from flood-hit Nepal.
"The locations being shown in television news are the same places where he was working," Ditya said.
Shikha Lakra, team leader at the state migrant control room, said they had written to the Indian Embassy and shared details of the stranded man.
"We hope to find him soon," she said.
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