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January 18, 2021 22:36 IST
Minority view says circular needs a rethink considering its “long-term impacts on the fragile Himalayan terrain and sensitive ecosystem”
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Minority view says circular needs a rethink considering its “long-term impacts on the fragile Himalayan terrain and sensitive ecosystem”
The Central government supported the majority view taken by the Supreme Court’s Char Dham High-Powered Committee (HPC) for the necessity of broadening the Himalayan feeder roads to India-China border in order to facilitate troop movement.
The Ministry of Defence, in an affidavit, said it was unfortunate that three of the HPC members had given a minority view to reconsider a December 15, 2020 circular of the Ministry of Road and Transport and Highways (MoRTH), which fixed the carriageway width of the feeder roads at seven metre with a paved shoulder spanning 1.5 metre on either side.