Uttarakhand flash floods: Chamoli disaster rings the global warming alarm bell
Experts blame it on the lessons not learnt by successive governments, given Uttarakhand’s history of natural disasters.
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Damaged Dhauliganga hydropower project after a glacier broke off in Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. (Photo | PTI) By Express News Service
DEHRADUN: It was a glacial break alright, but the jury is still out on how and why it actually happened.
However, the mismatch between the haste in commissioning projects in the ecologically fragile zone and the need to fortify the mitigation mechanism suggests it was a disaster waiting to happen.