{"id":552226,"date":"2023-02-03T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552226"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:39:20","slug":"subsidence-hit-joshimath-area-15-km-away-from-ntpc-project-power-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/subsidence-hit-joshimath-area-15-km-away-from-ntpc-project-power-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidence-hit Joshimath area 15 km away from NTPC project: Power minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power Minister R K Singh on Thursday said the area of subsidence in Joshimath was 15 km upstream from the components of the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project and there were no signs of sinking of ground around its tunnel alignment.<\/p>\n<p>In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Singh said land subsidence in Joshimath was &#8220;a very old issue&#8221; observed way back in 1976 and the M C Mishra Committee set up by the then state government listed &#8220;hill wash, natural angle of repose, cultivation area because of seepage and soil erosion&#8221; as probable causes for cracks in the Himalayan town.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said a multi-institutional committee set up by the state authorities in July last year had made no mention of NTPC Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project causing land subsidence in Joshimath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Minister R K Singh on Thursday said the area of subsidence in Joshimath was 15 km upstream from the components of the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project and there were no signs of sinking of ground around its tunnel alignment. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Singh said land subsidence in Joshimath was &#8220;a very old issue&#8221; observed way back in 1976 and the M C Mishra Committee set up by the then state government listed &#8220;hill wash, natural angle of repose, cultivation area because of seepage and soil erosion&#8221; as probable causes for cracks in [&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-552226","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\/552226","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=552226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}