{"id":548074,"date":"2023-01-18T09:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548074"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T05:06:00","slug":"no-link-between-hydropower-projects-and-joshimath-subsidence-r-k-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-link-between-hydropower-projects-and-joshimath-subsidence-r-k-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"No link between Hydropower projects and Joshimath subsidence: R K Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power Minister R.K. Singh on Tuesday said that NTPC&#8217;s Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project has nothing to do with the land subsidence issue being faced in Uttarakhand&#8217;s Joshimath town, the problem is with the area&#8217;s land.<\/p>\n<p>He also ruled out review of the ongoing hydropower projects in hilly areas.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview to a media outlet on the sidelines of the ongoing Davos WEF meet, Singh further said that hydropower projects won&#8217;t be stopped in the country, despite rising concerns over rampant construction in hilly areas.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the problem in Joshimath was detected in 1975 and the following year a committee of top geologists was set up,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Minister R.K. Singh on Tuesday said that NTPC&#8217;s Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project has nothing to do with the land subsidence issue being faced in Uttarakhand&#8217;s Joshimath town, the problem is with the area&#8217;s land. He also ruled out review of the ongoing hydropower projects in hilly areas. In an interview to a media outlet on the sidelines of the ongoing Davos WEF meet, Singh further said that hydropower projects won&#8217;t be stopped in the country, despite rising concerns over rampant construction in hilly areas. The minister said that the problem in Joshimath was detected in 1975 and the following [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548074","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=548074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}