A preliminary test report from the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) in land subsidence-affected Joshimath in Uttarakhand suggests that the water gushing out from cracks in the town is different from the water in the NTPC tunnel in Tapovan.
Following angry protests by residents of Joshimath in the wake of cracks appearing across the town, the state government had asked the NIH to collect water samples from JP colony, where about 15 ft-long cracks had appeared on a boundary wall with water gushing out from them, and the NTPC’s tunnel project and match the two samples.
