The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on January 16 a plea seeking the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster.
However, a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha declined to list Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati’s petition for an urgent hearing, stating that everything significant should not come to it directly.
The Chief Justice of India said, “There are democratically elected institutions to look into it. Everything important should not come to us. We will list it on January 16.”
Advocate Parmeshwar Nath Mishra, representing the views of Swami Saraswati, mentioned the argument. Large-scale industrialization, according to Swami Saraswati, is to blame for the catastrophe, and he has asked for immediate financial support and compensation for the people of Uttarakhand.
Additionally, the National Disaster Management Authority has been asked to provide guidance so that it can actively assist the Joshimath residents during this difficult period.
The plea of the Seer said, “No development is needed at the cost of human life and their ecosystem and if any such thing is to happen, then it is the duty of the State and Union government to stop the same immediately at war level.”
Land subsidence is posing a serious problem for Joshimath, which serves as a gateway to popular pilgrimage sites like Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib as well as the popular international skiing resort of Auli.
Huge fractures are appearing in the crops, residences, and roadways of Joshimath as it steadily sinks. Locals claim that many homes have experienced subsidence. 600 households living in dangerous homes have been asked by the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to leave immediately.
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