Char Dham Project requires Himalayan geological study
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Char Dham Project requires Himalayan geological study

When the first of the 41 workers stranded in the Silkyara tunnel was rescued on November 28, night after a 17-day ordeal, a collective sigh of relief was breathed by the nation. Although the rescue efforts were deserving of applause, the collapse of a section of the 4.5-km Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel in Uttarakhand on November 12, which ensnared the workers, gives rise to several inquiries regarding the mega infrastructure project in an ecologically fragile zone.

The tunnel constitutes a segment of the Union government's ambitious Char Dham Mahamarg Pariyojana?a highway widening project spanning almost 900 km in Uttarakhand, aiming to establish all-weather connectivity to the Hindu pilgrimage sites of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath. In August 2019, the Supreme Court established a high-powered committee to scrutinize the "cumulative and independent" impact of the project "on the entire Himalayan valleys."

When the first of the 41 workers stranded in the Silkyara tunnel was rescued on November 28, night after a 17-day ordeal, a collective sigh of relief was breathed by the nation. Although the rescue efforts were deserving of applause, the collapse of a section of the 4.5-km Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel in Uttarakhand on November 12, which ensnared the workers, gives rise to several inquiries regarding the mega infrastructure project in an ecologically fragile zone. The tunnel constitutes a segment of the Union government's ambitious Char Dham Mahamarg Pariyojana?a highway widening project spanning almost 900 km in Uttarakhand, aiming to establish all-weather connectivity to the Hindu pilgrimage sites of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath. In August 2019, the Supreme Court established a high-powered committee to scrutinize the cumulative and independent impact of the project on the entire Himalayan valleys.

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