Uttarakhand governor Lt General Gurmeet Singh had to make emergency landing at Srinagar Pauri due to a technical snag in his helicopter while he was on his way to the state’s summer capital Gairsain for the budget session of the state assembly on Sunday afternoon. Inclement weather forced the governor to continue his journey on the road as replacement heli could not come at Srinagar.
The helicopter of the Governor, travelling from Dehradun to Bhararisain, had to make an emergency landing at Srinagar (Pauri) GVK helipad due to the snag during the flight. He was flying from Dehradun to Bhararisain when the incident happened. The emergency landing caused a stir in the Pauri district administration following which the governor and his associates were taken out safely.
According to the information shared by Pauri police officials, the Governor’s helicopter experienced a technical hitch during flight forcing the pilot to exercise caution resulting in emergency landing of the heli. After the safe landing of the helicopter, the Governor was taken to the police guest house in Srinagar.
Although police informed that no one was reported injured in the emergency landing of the heli but governor could not provide an alternate helicopter from Srinagar to Bhararisain due to inclement weather.
Srinagsr Sub-Divisional Magistrate Nupur Verma stated that the Governor was on his way to Gairsain to attend the proposed budget session of the Uttarakhand assembly at Bhararisain to begin on March 9. Sharing the district administration’s action plan to take him to Bhararisain, Verma said that after emergency landing of the helicopter arrangements were made for the Governor to travel in another helicopter, but it could not arrive here due to bad weather.
Following this, the Governor’s program to fly down to Bhararisain was cancelled and he was provided with all arrangements to travel by road, said Verma.