{"id":619057,"date":"2023-11-24T09:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619057"},"modified":"2023-11-24T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:13:19","slug":"himalaya-tunnel-disaster-india-needs-more-caution-on-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/himalaya-tunnel-disaster-india-needs-more-caution-on-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalaya tunnel disaster: India needs more caution on infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than a week since 41 Indian construction workers were trapped inside a tunnel they were building in the Himalayan mountain ranges along India\u2019s northern border. They are receiving food and water through a narrow pipeline, and authorities insist that they will be rescued, though it isn\u2019t certain when. Yet their predicament should cause Indian authorities to rethink how they approach development projects in the high Himalayas. <\/p>\n<p>What caused the road tunnel they were excavating to collapse is unclear; it may have been a landslide, or that the structural integrity of the mountain had just been stressed more than it could handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than a week since 41 Indian construction workers were trapped inside a tunnel they were building in the Himalayan mountain ranges along India\u2019s northern border. They are receiving food and water through a narrow pipeline, and authorities insist that they will be rescued, though it isn\u2019t certain when. Yet their predicament should cause Indian authorities to rethink how they approach development projects in the high Himalayas. What caused the road tunnel they were excavating to collapse is unclear; it may have been a landslide, or that the structural integrity of the mountain had just been stressed [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619057","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\/619057","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=619057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}