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Char Dham Road begins extracting ecological costs: 25 landslides this season -Suparna Roy

-Hindustan Times

The 12,000 crore Char Dham road project was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016 to connect Hindu shrines of Gangotri, Yamnotri, Badrinath and Kedarnth through a four lane all-weather road

The all-weather Char Dham road in Uttarakhand has witnessed 25 major landslides this rainy season, forcing the administration to close two stretches of roads in Tehri Garwhal for indefinite periods and indicating that “unscientific” road construction was causing huge damage to the fragile local ecology.

The 12,000 crore Char Dham road project was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016 to connect Hindu shrines of Gangotri, Yamnotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath through a four lane all-weather road. The project had the ancillary benefit of facilitating rapid movement of Indian military forces to areas adjoining its border with China.

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