New Delhi: Joshimath Sinking of Uttarakhand is slowly being swallowed by the land and the danger is increasing. The land of Joshimath is rapidly sinking and this is the reason why cracks are appearing from the road to the houses. Joshimath News is continuously moving towards destruction, it has been revealed through satellite pictures. ISRO has released satellite pictures, which are giving frightening signals. Due to land subsidence, the Joshimath sinkhole of Uttarakhand is constantly moving downwards. ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Center has revealed through satellite images that within just 12 days i.e. between December 27 and January 8, Joshimath sank down by 5.4 cm.
This satellite picture of Joshimath is also frightening because NRSC has claimed that between April 2022 and November 2022, a slow subsidence of 9 cm was recorded in Joshimath, but between December and the first week of January last week, land in Joshimath The incident of rapid subsidence had started and in just 12 days the holy city of Joshimath sank 5.4 cm. Satellite photographs show that there is a subsidence zone in Central Joshimath, including the Army helipad and the Narsingh temple. The main subsidence zone is located near the Joshimath-Auli road at an altitude of 2,180 metres.
Joshimath sank 5.4 cm in 12 days, ISRO has released satellite picture.
In fact, Joshimath has been declared a landslide zone by the Chamoli district administration after hundreds of houses developed cracks within a few days and families had to relocate as their houses have been identified as danger zones, while the government has announced an interim relief package of Rs 1.5 lakh and is working on a rehabilitation package. Meanwhile, the weather pattern has also deteriorated in Joshimath.
Joshimath Sinking Crisis Live: Frightening signal from ISRO report; Entire Joshimath may drown; The holy city sank 5.4 cm in 12 days
Let us tell you that after the deadlock between the hotel owners and the administration for two days over the demand for compensation, the process of demolishing both the hotels declared ‘unsafe’ in landslide affected Joshimath was started on Thursday. At the same time, the process of evacuating people from houses with cracks and sending them to safer places also continued. Due to land subsidence and cracks in the walls for the past several days, the process of demolishing the hotels started after an agreement was reached between the owners of the hotels ‘Malari Inn’ and ‘Mount View’ and the local administration. Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Kumar Sinha told that the work of demolishing both the hotels in Joshimath has started. The seven-storey ‘Malari Inn’ and the five-storey ‘Mount View’ in Joshimath bowed dangerously due to land subsidence, threatening about a dozen houses below them.
In fact, 27 more families have been sent to temporary relief centers in Joshimath, while the number of houses marked with cracks has increased to 760. So far 589 members of 169 families have been sent to temporary relief centres. A total of 835 rooms are being used as relief centers in Joshimath and Pipalkoti, where there is accommodation for 3630 people. The official said that so far 42 affected families have been given interim assistance of Rs 1.5 lakh each. At present, two columns of the State Disaster Response Force and eight columns of the State Disaster Response Force have been deployed in Joshimath, while helicopters of the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) are deployed to deal with any contingency.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : January 13, 2023, 08:06 IST
