{"id":221310,"date":"2023-01-06T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221310"},"modified":"2023-01-07T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:43:11","slug":"jolt-from-joshimath-govts-have-finally-woken-up-to-a-hill-town-being-on-the-brink-of-an-ecological-disaster-but-more-needs-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jolt-from-joshimath-govts-have-finally-woken-up-to-a-hill-town-being-on-the-brink-of-an-ecological-disaster-but-more-needs-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolt From Joshimath – Govts have finally woken up to a hill town being on the brink of an ecological disaster. But more needs to be done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cJolt From Joshimath – Govts have finally woken up to a hill town being on the brink of an ecological disaster. But more needs to be done\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on 6th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster and disaster management.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the construction work in the Himalayan region.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: After protests in Uttarakhand\u2019s Joshimath over deepening cracks in houses, the district administration has halted road and power plant construction works in the vicinity, including the char dham road work.<\/p>\n

About the construction work in the Himalayan region<\/h5>\n

The Garhwal division is among India\u2019s most vulnerable regions. From 1976 to 2022, multiple government committees issued warnings to stop heavy construction activities.<\/p>\n

But the state and Centre did not halt the projects. As a result, the 2013 Uttarakhand floods<\/a><\/strong>, and last year\u2019s Chamoli disaster<\/a> <\/strong>were caused by a rock and ice avalanche that killed 200 people in Joshimath\u2019s vicinity and damaged two hydel projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Reasons and Solutions for disaster management in Uttarakhand<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What should be done to protect hilly and coastal regions?<\/h5>\n

Change the development strategy<\/strong>: Before it is too late, the government should change the frequent cave-ins and landslides marring these projects.<\/p>\n

Revisit the quality of environmental impact assessment(EIA)<\/strong>: For instance, Manipur\u2019s government decided to \u201crevisit\u201d the Imphal-Jiribam rail link\u2019s EIA after a landslide.<\/p>\n

Take eco-friendly measures<\/strong>: By halting construction activities the government may dampen economic growth and job creation, but it significantly reduces the dangers of a huge ecological disaster.<\/p>\n

Adequate assessment of landslide risks and proper preliminary structural engineering works are required to stabilise subsequent constructions in hilly and coastal regions.<\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article \u201cJolt From Joshimath – Govts have finally woken up to a hill town being on the brink of an ecological disaster. But more needs to be done\u201d published in The Times of India on 6th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster and disaster management. Relevance: About… Continue reading Jolt From Joshimath – Govts have finally woken up to a hill town being on the brink of an ecological disaster. But more needs to be done<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-221310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703264672},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}