{"id":254000,"date":"2023-07-29T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=254000"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:47:45","slug":"mussoorie-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mussoorie-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mussoorie Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cMussoorie Misery\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>\u201cThe Times of India\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>29th July 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Geography<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:<\/strong> Issues related to Himalayan ecosystem<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>NGT has ordered the Dhami government to follow 19 recommendations for saving Mussoorie from destruction by construction and tourism.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are some of the recommendations of NGT?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Regulate<\/strong> the number of tourists and charge them.<\/p>\n<p>Use these funds for <strong>waste management<\/strong> and for monitoring various <strong>construction activities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues faced by tourist places in the Himalayas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2001, a study revealed that Mussoorie had reached its <strong>carrying capacity<\/strong>. Despite this finding, tourist arrivals <strong>surged by 255%<\/strong> between 2000 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To accommodate<\/strong> the rising number of tourists, mountains are continuously being blasted without <strong>adequate consideration<\/strong> of the <strong>impact on hydrology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This approach does not benefit tourists. It makes their journeys <strong>unappealing and unsafe. <\/strong>Tourists are exposed to <strong>polluted air, traffic jams<\/strong>, and the risk of life-threatening <strong>landslides<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings issued by the <strong>Mishra committee in 1976<\/strong> regarding the vulnerabilities in the local areas have not been heeded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more readings on MIshra committee<\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/joshimath-sinking-panel-had-warned-50-years-ago\/articleshow\/96608800.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/dehradun\/joshimath-sinking-panel-had-warned-50-years-ago\/articleshow\/96608800.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cMussoorie Misery\u201d published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 29th July 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Geography Relevance: Issues related to Himalayan ecosystem News- NGT has ordered the Dhami government to follow 19 recommendations for saving Mussoorie from destruction by construction and tourism. What are some of the recommendations&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mussoorie-misery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mussoorie Misery<\/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":[80,263,10496],"class_list":["post-254000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-geography","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254000","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=254000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}