Even as the Uttarakhand government has announced that the Char Dham Yatra will commence from April 22 this year and the portals to Badrinath shrine will open on April 27, fresh fissures have appeared on the road between JP Colony in subsidence-hit Joshimath and Marwari on the Badrinath Highway.
According to Joshimath locals, a few cracks had appeared on the 10-km long stretch in January itself, but they have widened in the last few days along with new cracks.
“The cracks have appeared on the road from JP Colony to Marwari. Some cracks had appeared on the road in the first week of January when about 15 feet-long crack developed on a boundary wall of Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (JPVL) premises with water gushing out from them.
