Chardham Highway project
- February 18, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Chardham Highway project
Context: SC panel head cites link between Char Dham road widening, Uttarakhand floods.
Concept:
- It aims to connect four Hindu holy towns of Yamunotri, GangotriKedarnath, and Badrinath in Uttarakhand and is a 900-KMS long project.
- The project is also deemed strategically important in the backdrop of the recent India-China military standoff at LAC.
- The Centre on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that there is no connection between the ‘Chardham’ road widening projecs and the flash floods recently.
- The high-power Committee appointed by the SC to study Char Dham Project recent disaster in the Rishiganga valley took place in the region north of the Main Central Thrust (MCT), which is highly prone to landslides, flash floods and earthquakes.