As families across the state desperately search for loved ones missing in the floods that have left Nepal devastated, the Maharashtra Mountaineers Rescue Coordination Centre (MMRCC), which operates under the Akhil Maharashtra Giryarohan Mahasangh (AMGM), the apex organisation for mountaineering in the state, has thrown open a statewide helpline to trace the missing and help identify victims.

Family members look at details of people who went missing after the flash floods, outside Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal