Guidelines crucial for safety, which would have helped in the Silkyara tunnel collapse, are being met superficially met for faster completion and cost-cutting.
Though experts suggested that heavy construction should be prevented in the area more than four decades ago, governments have pushed through a hydel project and an ambitious yet controversial highway project in the region.
NEW DELHI: Thousands of people in an Indian Himalayan town are facing relocation as authorities on Tuesday pressed ahead with evacuation efforts across the temple city that is sinking due to land subsidence. Joshimath, a town of 25,000 people in Chamoli district, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, is on a key Hindu pilgrim circuit. It lies near the China border, on a