<p>Relatives of 20 people from the city, who have been on a North India tour, are waiting for the safe return of their kith and kin, following the high intensity earthquake that claimed several hundreds of lives on Saturday. However, all are safe, according to their relatives back home.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Suvarnambe, aged 45 years, and her husband Nagaraju, 60, daughter Sri Durga, 13, from Paduvarahalli, Pushpalatha, 40, sister of Suvarnambe from Bogadi, their close relatives Satish, 50, Manjunath, 32, his wife Rohini, 32, and daughter Minchu, six, Shashi, a money lender from Paduvarahalli, Chandru, an electrician, from Sharadadevi Nagar, Indu and her husband and their two children from Hootagalli, along with six others from nearby localities, had gone on the tour on April 15.<br /><br />Suvarnambe’s brother Mahadev Nandish, BJP Yuva Morcha, Mysuru (Rural) unit vice-president, told Deccan Herald, “On April 23, they had reached Kathmandu and visited holy places till Saturday morning. Around 1.35 pm, I got a call on my cellphone from my niece Sri Durga from Kathmandu, only to say that all are safe. However, they went incommunicado later, triggering anxiety among us”.<br /><br />Nandish said, following the phone call, we were confident about their survival, but the fear remained, as the mobile network went kaput after the quake. “Around 6.30 pm, I contacted my brother-in-law Nagaraj, who assured of their safety again,” he said.<br /><br />Quoting Nagaraju, Nandish said: “They had left before the catastrophe struck the capital city of Nepal. By the evening hours, they were close to India border”.<br /><br />Suvarnambe is a nursing superintendent at JSS Hospital, in Mysuru, while her husband is a priest at Sri Ramamandira of Paduvarahalli. Pushpalatha, a spinster, lives with her brother Nandish’s family in Bogadi.<br /><br />Nandish said: “In all, 40 from Bengaluru — including 20 from Mysuru — were taken on a tour by Karnataka Kisan Sangha in Bengaluru. As per the itinerary, they travelled from Bengaluru to Bhubaneshwar in Odisha by train, followed by Gaya in Bihar, Kolkata in West Bengal, Varanasi and Kashi in Uttar Pradesh, before culminating at Kathmandu on April 25. They are expected to be here on April 30”.</p>
<p>Relatives of 20 people from the city, who have been on a North India tour, are waiting for the safe return of their kith and kin, following the high intensity earthquake that claimed several hundreds of lives on Saturday. However, all are safe, according to their relatives back home.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Suvarnambe, aged 45 years, and her husband Nagaraju, 60, daughter Sri Durga, 13, from Paduvarahalli, Pushpalatha, 40, sister of Suvarnambe from Bogadi, their close relatives Satish, 50, Manjunath, 32, his wife Rohini, 32, and daughter Minchu, six, Shashi, a money lender from Paduvarahalli, Chandru, an electrician, from Sharadadevi Nagar, Indu and her husband and their two children from Hootagalli, along with six others from nearby localities, had gone on the tour on April 15.<br /><br />Suvarnambe’s brother Mahadev Nandish, BJP Yuva Morcha, Mysuru (Rural) unit vice-president, told Deccan Herald, “On April 23, they had reached Kathmandu and visited holy places till Saturday morning. Around 1.35 pm, I got a call on my cellphone from my niece Sri Durga from Kathmandu, only to say that all are safe. However, they went incommunicado later, triggering anxiety among us”.<br /><br />Nandish said, following the phone call, we were confident about their survival, but the fear remained, as the mobile network went kaput after the quake. “Around 6.30 pm, I contacted my brother-in-law Nagaraj, who assured of their safety again,” he said.<br /><br />Quoting Nagaraju, Nandish said: “They had left before the catastrophe struck the capital city of Nepal. By the evening hours, they were close to India border”.<br /><br />Suvarnambe is a nursing superintendent at JSS Hospital, in Mysuru, while her husband is a priest at Sri Ramamandira of Paduvarahalli. Pushpalatha, a spinster, lives with her brother Nandish’s family in Bogadi.<br /><br />Nandish said: “In all, 40 from Bengaluru — including 20 from Mysuru — were taken on a tour by Karnataka Kisan Sangha in Bengaluru. As per the itinerary, they travelled from Bengaluru to Bhubaneshwar in Odisha by train, followed by Gaya in Bihar, Kolkata in West Bengal, Varanasi and Kashi in Uttar Pradesh, before culminating at Kathmandu on April 25. They are expected to be here on April 30”.</p>
