Residents of Uttarakhand's Joshimath are living in a state of fear as five more houses have developed minor cracks along with the widening and increasing number of cracks in residential buildings already affected with land subsidence in the .
It has been more than a month since Bharti Devi left her home which was damaged due to cracks after the land began sinking in Joshimath in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
Many residents who were using a primary school in Singhdhar ward as a temporary shelter had to move to an abandoned army barracks after the school was reopened
Chamoli District Magistrate Himanshu Khurana on Monday suggested three options for the settlement of the displaced people in land subsidence-hit Joshimath, officials said.