{"id":222917,"date":"2023-01-18T19:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222917"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:36:02","slug":"crisis-in-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/crisis-in-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cCrisis in the Himalayas\u201d <\/strong>published in the <b>Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a0<b>18th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster and disaster management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About protecting the Himalayan Ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Himalayan town Joshimath is under tremendous stress, and a portion of it has started sinking. The real issue has always been about pursuing development without working on environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"About_Joshimath\">About Joshimath<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-tunnels-through-a-sinking-town\/\">Who Tunnels Through A Sinking Town?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are the other major disasters that happened in the Himalayan Ecosystem?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reckless-spree-authorities-must-heed-science-and-people-living-near-mines-dams\/\">Reckless spree \u2013 Authorities must heed science and people living near mines, dams<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are the challenges faced by Hilly areas?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-mountain-reeling-under-human-aggression\/\"><strong>A mountain reeling under human aggression<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>-Environmental impact assessment of a particular project does not capture the cumulative impact of a series of such projects in a river basin.<\/p>\n<p>-In recent years, the twin demands of both religion and defence have been added to the development argument. This kept aside environmental and terrain considerations.<\/p>\n<h2>What should be done to protect the Himalayan ecosystem?<\/h2>\n<p>In the Himalayan zone, <strong>hydro projects should generally be of the run-of-the-river variety<\/strong> since large-scale water storage reservoirs can greatly disturb a terrain that is seismically unstable and still shifting.<\/p>\n<p>Respecting religious sentiments should not mean constructing six-lane highways to sacred pilgrim spots deep in the Himalayas. Similarly, for defence, improved access in the short term should not come at the cost of seriously disrupted communications in the longer term due to disasters.<\/p>\n<p>There is an urgent need to<strong> undertake a detailed survey<\/strong> by multidisciplinary expert teams. This is to understand the nature and scale of the challenge with the Himalayan ecosystem. The government must both halt and then reverse the disturbing trends that are intensifying day by day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cCrisis in the Himalayas\u201d published in the Business Standard on\u00a018th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Disaster and disaster management. Relevance: About protecting the Himalayan Ecosystem. News: The Himalayan town Joshimath is under tremendous stress, and a portion of it has started sinking. The real issue has always&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/crisis-in-the-himalayas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crisis in the Himalayas<\/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":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-222917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222917","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=222917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}