{"id":617194,"date":"2023-11-14T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617194"},"modified":"2023-11-14T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T05:11:09","slug":"uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-ecological-concerns-need-to-be-addressed-for-development-in-himalayas-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarakhand-tunnel-collapse-ecological-concerns-need-to-be-addressed-for-development-in-himalayas-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Ecological concerns need to be addressed for development in Himalayas, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dehradun: Horrific incidents like the partial collapse of an under construction tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarkashi&#8217;s Silkyara would continue to happen if ecological concerns were not addressed, noted environmentalist Ravi Chopra said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Chopra had resigned last year as the chairman of a Supreme Court-appointed high-powered committee on Char Dham all-weather road expressing disappointment over the apex court order limiting the panel&#8217;s jurisdiction to only two &#8216;non defence&#8217; stretches of the project.<\/p>\n<p>For development in the Himalayas, it is necessary to first address ecological concerns, he said, adding sustainable development demands approaches that are both geologically and ecologically sound. &#8220;Unless this balance is achieved such horrific incidents will continue to happen,&#8221; Chopra told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehradun: Horrific incidents like the partial collapse of an under construction tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarkashi&#8217;s Silkyara would continue to happen if ecological concerns were not addressed, noted environmentalist Ravi Chopra said on Monday. Chopra had resigned last year as the chairman of a Supreme Court-appointed high-powered committee on Char Dham all-weather road expressing disappointment over the apex court order limiting the panel&#8217;s jurisdiction to only two &#8216;non defence&#8217; stretches of the project. For development in the Himalayas, it is necessary to first address ecological concerns, he said, adding sustainable development demands approaches that are both geologically [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617194","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=617194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}