All 29 Jharkhand labourers, who were stranded in Chamoli after the glacial burst that triggered an avalanche on February 7, have returned home safely, officials manning the state control room said on Monday, adding that the workers faced financial crisis and logistical challenges during their journey from Uttarakhand.

However, none of the 14 state migrants reported missing from the site of the disaster has been found or identified so far. At least nine migrants from Lohardaga, four from Ramgarh and one from Bokaro have been untraceable since the incident in Chamoli. While respective district administrations are coordinating with families of the missing labourers, none of the districts have officially reported any casualty in the Chamoli incident so far.

Among the over two dozen labourers who returned from Uttarakhand, as many as 10 are from Latehar, seven from Ramgarh, three from Bokaro, seven from Jamtara and two from Hazaribagh, as per the state control room, which has been receiving calls from stranded labourers and coordinating with authorities to ensure the safety of Jharkhand migrants in Uttarakhand since February 8.

Officials from concerned district administrations have also contacted employers and contractors who had taken labourers for work to Uttarakhand. Document verification work was still in process and employment agencies have been asked to cooperate with the state in providing information related to the missing labourers.

The state control room has also registered eight migrant labourers from other states and has informed the authorities of those states. Two labourers each from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, one from Uttar Pradesh and three from Karnataka had contacted the state control room for help. All these labourers were stranded in Chamoli and could not contact authorities in their respective states, officials said.

Santosh Singh, a Latehar labourer, who was working at a National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) site in Chamoli, reached home on Sunday. He said his employer had booked bus tickets for him and his nine fellow labourers from Chamoli to Haridwar, from where they took a train to Dehri-On-Sone and eventually crossed into Jharkhand on Saturday.

“The journey was difficult as we did not have cash in hand, but we managed to reach home. We travelled for more than 48 hours at a stretch to reach Jharkhand from Chamoli,” said Singh.

At least 54 people are feared dead and several others missing following a glacial burst in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district which triggered an avalanche and massive flooding alongside the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers.