Recent flooding in the Yamuna River floodplain in Delhi has drawn much attention to the vulnerability faced by one of the largest metropolises. However, the hasty diagnosis of the new experts failed to highlight the fault line that rocked the capital. Had they circled their reasoning around the “call of the mountains” propensity to travel, some thought and clarification might have occurred.
The mighty Himalayas are mistaken for human and in turn more “development”, but the mountains prefer the rivers flowing in the northern subcontinent of India for people to thrive. in the plains. The Ganges, Yamuna, Indus and all the great rivers and their tributaries, which originate in the mountains, are geologically young and unstable. For thousands of years, Hindus worshiped the river goddess and mountain god, earning them the nickname “Dev Bhoomi” for Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
During this turbulent season, the gods turned their backs on us and showed their cruel love by taking away a portion of our material possessions that encroached on Dev Bhoomi. The wrath of nature and the wrath of God that we witnessed recently have some lessons for the government of the BJP, the organization that represents Bulldozer Justice. This time, however, everything changed when infrastructure projects authorized on a dubious basis, against the interests of the Himalayan ecosystem, were destroyed by nature.
As devout Hindus, how do we explain the sinking of the holy city of Joshimath? Flash flood in the temple city of Kedarnath in 2013? And now flooding in several towns in Dev Bhoomi Himachal Pradesh? These disasters have been presented to the public as the unpredictable wrath of nature beyond our control, but that’s not even half the truth. Simply put, the mountain gods were angry with the men for trespassing on their homes. Perhaps we are paying the price for the misdeeds of a few who have subject us to the wrath of the mountain gods. To the caution of environmental experts, some 100 million tourists will visit the state of Uttarakhand in 2022 alone. Char Dham Pariyojana, which stretches for 880 kilometers, completely ignores any assessment of its environmental impact. It. Despite many warnings, the authorities continued to widen the width of the Char Dham road, ignoring the inevitable consequence of attracting more pilgrims and tourists. The widening and widening of highways is even justified in the name of national security, which is infuriating, but some of these all-weather roads have been met with fury. swept away god.
The central government has shown complete ignorance and neglect of the basic principles of environmental protection in Uttarakhand. Lessons learned from the devastating flood disaster of 2013, including the need to carefully regulate tourism activities and prevent river obstacles, have not been put into practice. As a result, the state remains in a precarious situation and is very vulnerable during each monsoon season.
