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Strong resentment prevails among people against the government for the indifference with which it treated the warnings about a 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. “If attention was paid in time to what we were saying things would not have been so alarming in Joshimath,” he added.
#WATCH | Joshimath land subsidence: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami conducts an aerial survey of Joshimath. He will also conduct a ground inspection of the affected areas here and meet the affected families. pic.twitter.com/CmmhAewxhy
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Land subsidence had made the houses of 14 families insecure in November 2021 itself, Sati recalls.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inspected cracks in houses in Joshimath’s land subsidence-affected area reoported ANI .
