According to the NGOs, the relief material with them can last only till July 25, and after that many households will run out of dry rations and other essentials like match boxes to light stoves.
Bhupendra Lal, 35, his wife and two children were surviving on rain water for three days in a village in Tehri, until a bag of relief material brought by a volunteer reached them. Thousands of flash-flood survivors like Lal's family who braved nature's fury and are cut off from the mainland are now at the mercy of intermittent relief.
The NGOs are trying hard to reach remote and inaccessible villages for carrying out relief work. They say in the initial few weeks after the June 17 tragedy there was a "contest" between political parties and voluntary organisations in sending relief material, which was not streamlined in a systematic manner, as a result of which hundreds of needy people did not receive aid.