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Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC. ....
Officials regard hydropower as essential for India to meet its renewable energy goals but recent events have cast a shadow on the viability of the power source. ....
The crisis in Joshimath has strengthened scrutiny of India's push for more hydropower to help balance rising energy demand while cutting planet-heating emissions to net zero by 2070. India's power minister told journalists last week that construction of the NTPC project had not led to land subsidence or cracks in Joshimath. ....