A month after the Uttarakhand crisis, the state government will declare the 5000 missing to be presumed dead and the compensation to be handed over to the family immediately. However, the government has said that the beneficiaries should sign an undertaking to return the compensation if the 'dead' person is found to be alive.

Over 5,700 people are still missing from 18 states. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said that the list of dead will be sent to the chief secretaries of all states.

The maximum number of missing people, at least 2,000, is from Uttar Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh comes second with a little over a 1,000 people missing.