The death toll in the Uttarakhand glacier burst incident has mounted to 36 and 204 persons are still missing, informed the State government on Thursday. Out of the 36 recovered dead bodies, 10 have been identified while 24 of them are yet to be identified, the government said.

Meanwhile, Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla has chaired a meeting to review the progress of rescue and relief work being carried out by Central agencies and agencies of the Uttarakhand Government at the site of the hydro project of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Tapovan on Dhauliganga River, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a release.