{"id":619051,"date":"2023-11-24T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619051"},"modified":"2023-11-24T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:11:17","slug":"ukhand-tunnel-collapse-you-cant-act-surprised-says-environment-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukhand-tunnel-collapse-you-cant-act-surprised-says-environment-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"U&#8217;khand tunnel collapse: &#8216;You can&#8217;t act surprised,&#8217; says environment expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s government ignored a recommendation that it conduct a formal environmental risk study on a highway tunnel project that collapsed and trapped 41 workers. <\/p>\n<p>While large projects in India are required by law to undergo an Environmental Impacts Assessment, the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhand was exempt as it is divided into segments smaller than 100 km each. So the Supreme Court in 2019 asked an expert panel to suggest risk mitigation options. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote to the government asking them to conduct a rapid EIA\u201d but the study wasn\u2019t submitted, Ravi Chopra, the panel\u2019s chairman, said by phone on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s government ignored a recommendation that it conduct a formal environmental risk study on a highway tunnel project that collapsed and trapped 41 workers. While large projects in India are required by law to undergo an Environmental Impacts Assessment, the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarakhand was exempt as it is divided into segments smaller than 100 km each. So the Supreme Court in 2019 asked an expert panel to suggest risk mitigation options. \u201cWe wrote to the government asking them to conduct a rapid EIA\u201d but the study wasn\u2019t submitted, Ravi Chopra, the panel\u2019s chairman, said by phone on Tuesday.<\/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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619051","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=619051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}