Joshimath land subsidence: CBRI identifies 14 high risk zones
high risk zones in subsidence-hit Joshimath and recommended that the administration should ask the residents in these areas of the town to either take compensation or get relocated. «After a detailed survey, we have identified 14 high risk zones in Joshimath from where land subsidence was reported last year. The houses in Marwari, Sunil, Upper Bazar, Lower Bazar, Singhdhar and Manohar Bagh areas of the town fall into this category.
Residing in these houses is fraught with danger, » CBRI scientist Ajay Chaurasia said.
There are around 1,000 residential and commercial structures in the high risk zones in the town.
However, it was found during the survey that the cracks and subsidence reported from the town last year had not widened or deepened over the last six months, Chaurasia said.
«The residents of the high risk zones can be offered two options of either taking compensation or getting relocated to a safe location where all facilities of a smart village will be provided to them,» he added.
The CBRI will give all its support to the state government in developing the new location as a model village, Chaurasia said.
State Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Sinha met the subsidence-hit families of Joshimath last Saturday to explain the situation to them but the affected residents protested against their «displacement out of Joshimath in the name of rehabilitation».
