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Joshimath Sinking Live Updates: National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) officials called on Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami at the Chief Minister's residence on Monday and discussed the relief and rescue operations that raised after landslides in Joshimath. The officials assured the Chief Minister of the investigation into the geographical condition of the Joshimath area and the causes of the landslide and central help in disaster relief.
According to an official statement, the NDMA members suggested that it was that it is necessary to find out where the water is stagnant in the Bhudhsaon area and what are the reasons for the Bhudhsaav.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said the state government is contemplating if people need to be migrated and rehabilitated from Joshimath, a location for the same is to be chosen. The statement came as he conducted a ground inspection in the town and met the affected families, following an aerial survey.
"Our effort is to make everyone safe. Preparations were made for necessary arrangements. Our first task is to take people to safer areas. Geoscientists are working. There's Guwahati institute, IIT Roorkee, also in talks with ISRO. Everyone finding out causes," CM Dhami told news agency ANI.
He further informed, "We are also contemplating if people need to be migrated from here and rehabilitated. We are also finding out a location for this. As of now, this is the winter season. So, we are looking into the issues that need to be addressed immediately."
This comes as a key Joshimath-Malari border road, connecting the India-China border, developed cracks at several places due to landslides in Joshimath, news agency ANI reported. Strategically important Joshimath-Malari border road is subsiding near the Malari taxi stand.
Previously, the Uttarakhand Chief Minister ordered an immediate evacuation of around 600 families living in houses that have developed huge cracks and are at risk in Joshimath town which is sinking.
"Saving lives is our first priority. Officials have been asked to shift around 600 families living in endangered houses in Joshimath to safe locations," Dhami said on Friday after reviewing the situation in the sinking town with officials via video conference, as quoted by news agency PTI.
"We are also working on short and long-term plans to address the situation in Joshimath," he said.
Garhwal Commissioner Sushil Kumar and secretary, disaster management, Ranjit Kumar Sinha along with a team of experts are camping on the ground to constantly monitor the situation, informed CM Pushkar Dhami on Friday.
Strong resentment prevails among people here against the government for the indifference with which it treated the warnings about the dangerous situation of buildings in the Himalayan town due to heavy construction activities going on around it.
They hold the NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project mainly responsible for the situation.
"We have been drawing the attention of authorities for the past 14 months. But we were not heeded. Now when the situation is getting out of hand, they are sending expert teams to assess things," Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti convenor Atul Sati said, as per PTI.
"If attention was paid in time to what we were saying things would not have been so alarming in Joshimath," he added.
Land subsidence had made the houses of 14 families insecure in November 2021 itself, Sati recalls.
He said that people held a demonstration following this at the tehsil office on November 16, 2021, demanding rehabilitation and handed a memorandum to the SDM who acknowledged that even the tehsil office premises had developed cracks .
Located at an altitude of 6,000 feet in Chamoli district, the town of Joshimath, which is situated on the route to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib, falls in high-risk seismic 'Zone-V'.
(With Agency Inputs)
'If Subsidence Would've Happened Due To Tunnel, Would've Affected It First': NTPC Addl GM Geology
"Presently, no blasting is being done in this tunnel&water has also not been filled in it. If (land) subsidence would've happened due to it, it would've affected the tunnel first. There's no possibility of land subsidence due to this tunnel:" B Kumar, NTPC Addl GM Geology was quoted as saying by ANI.
U'khand | Presently, no blasting is being done in this tunnel&water has also not been filled in it. If (land) subsidence would've happened due to it, it would've affected the tunnel first. There's no possibility of land subsidence due to this tunnel: B Kumar, NTPC Addl GM Geology pic.twitter.com/ZPywPqPYmK
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) January 17, 2023
'Tunnel Not Passing Through Joshimath': NTPC Tapovan Chief GM Denies Possibility Of Subsidence Due To Tunnel Construction
But the area in the tunnel where blasting will be done is at a distance of 11 km from Joshimath. The tunnel is also not passing through Joshimath. So there's no possibility of land subsidence due to the construction of this tunnel: RP Ahirwar, Chief GM, NTPC Tapovan was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Uttarakhand | But the area in the tunnel where blasting will be done is at a distance of 11 km from Joshimath. The tunnel is also not passing through Joshimath. So there's no possibility of land subsidence due to the construction of this tunnel: RP Ahirwar, Chief GM, NTPC Tapovan pic.twitter.com/976dcM1T1s
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) January 17, 2023
Narsingh Temple Treasury To Be Moved To Pipalkoti
I had written a letter to GSI some time back asking for a report on the Narsingh temple in Joshimath and the preliminary report stated that there's no threat to the temple complex at present. But keeping in view, the land subsidence situation in Joshimath, we'll shift the temple treasury, containing about 3,000-3,500 kg silver and 40-45 kg gold, to our Pipalkoti guest house. Action plan for the same has been prepared: Badarinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee Chairman Ajendra Ajay.
Chamoli Administration Begins Technical Survey For Demolition Exercise
Chamoli district administration has begun the technical survey of damaged buildings in JP Colony for demolition exercise amid deepening crisis in subsidence-hit Joshimath in Uttarakhand.
Joshimath Live Updates: Over 30 Houses Develop Crack In JP Colony, To Be Razed Down
Over 30 houses of JP colony have developed cracks in the subsidence-hit Joshimath after which the decision has been taken to raze the buildings, sources told ABP News.
Regarding JP Colony, Chamoli's DM Himanshu Khurana has been directed to inform the concerned parties so that the construction which has reached critical condition is removed at the earliest. This colony will also be demolished like the already proposed Mount View and Malari Inn Hotel.
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