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Mukteshwar in an ecological flux

Mukteshwar in an ecological flux share this article The scenic spaces of the Himalayas are a natural tourist magnet. But the resultant urbanisation and attendant issues such as garbage crisis, water shortage, and habitat destruction are posing a threat to the region’s very USP. Staring at the Nanda Devi peak on a warm winter morning, Lal Singh, a magnificent 93, could never have imagined the change his region has undergone in the last two decades. He points towards the Kumaon Himalayas and says, “I’ve never seen these mountains naked in bare rock at this time of the year. Until a few years ago, my village used to be covered with a blanket of snow in January”. In the larger narrative about the Himalayas that people hold on to, glacial melting attracts public imagination. What’s equally important but fails to garner enough national attention is the haphazard anthropogenic interventions these young fold mountains are being forced to undergo. This column highlights the case

Hydroelectric projects, road widening resulted in disaster in U khand:Chardham panel chief to SC

Hydroelectric projects, road widening resulted in disaster in U khand:Chardham panel chief to SC
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Hydroelectric projects, road widening resulted in disaster in U khand:Chardham panel chief to SC

PTI | New Delhi | Updated: 17-02-2021 19:16 IST | Created: 17-02-2021 19:16 IST The Chairman of a high-powered committee, monitoring the Chardham highway project in Uttarakhand, has written to the Supreme Court that irreversible damage has been caused to the Himalayan ecology due to the construction of hydroelectric projects and the road widening which has resulted in recent disaster of flash flood in Chamoli district. In a letter to the apex court, Ravi Chopra, chairman of the panel, said post the Kedarnath tragedy in 2013 an expert body submitted a report highlighting impact of hydroelectric projects and had these concerns and recommendations been adopted, the massive loss of lives and property could have been avoided in the Rishi Ganga and Tapovan Vishnugad projects.

Hydroelectric projects, road widening resulted in Uttarakhand disaster

Experts say India glacier disasters can t be avoided without change

Experts say India glacier disasters can t be avoided without change Arshad R. Zargar © ANUSHREE FADNAVIS/REUTERS Rescue operation outside a tunnel after a part of a glacier broke away, in Tapovan New Delhi  Nearly four days after the partial collapse of a glacier and the subsequent flash flooding of a valley in northern India, rescue workers were still struggling to reach 34 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel in the state of Uttarakhand on Wednesday. Rescue workers armed with heavy construction equipment, drones and even sniffer dogs were struggling to penetrate the one-and-a-half-mile long tunnel that filled with ice-cold water, mud, rocks and debris when the disaster struck on Sunday. 

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