Several scary incidents of cloudbursts, landslides and flashfloods, fuelled by the third day of torrential rain, were witnessed in Himachal on Monday. The has pegged its losses at around Rs 4,000 crore even as the death toll has reached 17.
There has been widespread damage to roads, power transformers, electric sub-stations and water supply schemes. The loss, as per an initial estimate, is in the range of Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore, said Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.