Bengaluru techie website helps families trace those missing in Nepal floods
Arfath Mohammad, a Bengaluru-based engineer, created the website ReuniteIndia.com | Photo credit: Special arrangement
The website helps families and friends track their near and dear ones by collecting information from government websites in Nepal and India. | Photo credit: File photo
A Bengaluru-based engineer has created a website, ReuniteIndia.com, to help families and friends trace their loved ones missing in the Nepal floods.
Arfath Mohammad is a Senior Solution Architect, programming language and AI mentor. The website helps families and friends track their near and dear ones by collecting information from government websites in Nepal and India.
“There are various sources through which families in India and around the world are still searching for their loved ones who were lost in the Nepal floods. As of September 8, our website has a list of more than 665 people, which includes missing, rescued and those who are safe. The information comes from four sources, including Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), official reports from the Ministry of India @India, the Indian Police, A. filed directly by families and individuals through the platform,” said Mr. Mohammad.
He added: “Of the 665 individuals, 477 have been found safe and 188 are still missing. Each post is manually reviewed before being published and nothing is published automatically on my website as organizations track people through different agencies. For example, one organization may track people registered through specific travel agencies, another a specific district. Our total reflects confirmed records compiled from all these official channels, which may be more than each published agencies.”
He noted that having all the information on a single platform, ReuniteIndia.com, helps families who are stuck right now to gather information scattered across dozens of PDFs, helplines and social media posts.
What makes the site unique is that it has all the latest information about each person on the list. Mr Mohammad explained: “Each page of the case contains a QR code linking to the person’s current status, so someone scanning an old poster can still see the latest information. There is also a hospital and police station locator near the last seen location and instructions on what to do if a police complaint has not yet been lodged.”
Bridging the language barrier
Similarly, the website acts as a verification tool whenever unverified rumors and outdated posts appear on social media. “We verify crowdsourced information directly with official government reports before confirming statuses and presenting them to the people. Some individual names in official Nepal Police disaster bulletins appear in the Devanagari script or informal transliteration rather than standard English spelling – meaning the same person can appear under two or three different spellings in different official sources. For the Indian family, the fastest search loved one, most of whom don’t read the real barrier.” bring it all together into one consistent, correctly written and English-accessible record.” he added.
He is currently working on adding an AI chatbot to the site’s resource page to help answer people’s questions directly.
Published – 11 Sep 2026 21:59 IST