{"id":222723,"date":"2023-01-16T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222723"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:43:24","slug":"share-dont-gag-on-land-subsidence-in-joshimath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/share-dont-gag-on-land-subsidence-in-joshimath\/","title":{"rendered":"Share, Don\u2019t Gag \u2013 on land subsidence in Joshimath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article <strong>\u201cShare, Don<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>t Gag\u201d,<\/strong> published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>16<sup>th<\/sup> January, 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic<\/strong>: GS Paper 3, Disaster Management<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The National Disaster Management Authority has ordered government institutions and officials to not share any information about land subsidence in Joshimath.<\/p>\n<p>The order will stay in force till the final report of NDMA\u2019s expert group is submitted.<\/p>\n<p>The order is followed by the satellite report of ISRO that indicates subsidence of about 9 cm in seven months.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA\u2019s gag order is the second such instance in the recent past. A few weeks back ICAR issued a similar one for GM mustard.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues with restricting the information low?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> NDMA\u2019s report will come after a long time. The information vacuum left by the government will be filled by sources that can be untrue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> satellite pictures of the region are not limited to ISRO\u2019s, and plenty of foreign scientists are working on the Joshimath subsidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> global experience of Covid teaches us that stringent restrictions on the information flow is self-defeating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth,<\/strong> debates and disagreements expand the boundaries of knowledge and restricting information and debate trigger suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cShare, Don\u2019t Gag\u201d, published in The Times of India on 16th January, 2022. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 3, Disaster Management News: The National Disaster Management Authority has ordered government institutions and officials to not share any information about land subsidence in Joshimath. The order will stay&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/share-dont-gag-on-land-subsidence-in-joshimath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Share, Don\u2019t Gag \u2013 on land subsidence in Joshimath<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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-222723","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":1700061340},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222723","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}