{"id":534798,"date":"2022-11-07T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534798"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:14:28","slug":"kinnaur-and-lahaul-spiti-districts-we-will-vote-for-whoever-opposes-hydro-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kinnaur-and-lahaul-spiti-districts-we-will-vote-for-whoever-opposes-hydro-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts: \u2018We will vote for whoever opposes hydro projects\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of both Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts, which have a similar topography, have been protesting against proposed hydel power projects in their respective regions. While harvesting and sourcing water is important, the backbone of such projects are constructions of dams, cutting through the mountains, thus weakening the soil and resulting in frequent landslides and sometimes earthquakes. <\/p>\n<p>While a few such projects are already operating in the area, the nightmare came true when landslides started taking place in Kinnaur district. In July 2021, a landslide took place in Batseri village killing nine people, including eight tourists. On August 11, 2021, another landslide took place in Nugalsari village in Kinnaur killing 28 people. This year too, a landslide occurred near NH-5 but fortunately people escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of both Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts, which have a similar topography, have been protesting against proposed hydel power projects in their respective regions. While harvesting and sourcing water is important, the backbone of such projects are constructions of dams, cutting through the mountains, thus weakening the soil and resulting in frequent landslides and sometimes earthquakes. While a few such projects are already operating in the area, the nightmare came true when landslides started taking place in Kinnaur district. In July 2021, a landslide took place in Batseri village killing nine people, including eight tourists. On August 11, 2021, another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}