New Delhi: The center on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the requirements of the armed forces at the fluctuati Indo-China border needed a rapid weaponry movement and severe artillery through the Chardham road that connects Garrison to the border point and argued that expanding existing roads up to 10 meters.
Width will facilitate this even in the middle of rain, snow and landslides.
“The risk of landslides always suggest the action of repairs and mitigation in landslides and the earth’s sinking zone,” said lawyer General while handling Judge Dy Chandrachud, Surya Kant a Vikram Nath.
“Landslides and earth-sinking zones are not unique to the Himalayan but occur in every hilly field.
Can each armed forces are heard to say that because the field is hilly, the lack of right roads and obstacles in the transport of severe artillery tanks, weapons and troops, are vulnerable to the border ? Can we give up making a way for the needs of the army in the hills because of landslides? We must build the right way to facilitate the movement of soldiers and machines while taking all steps to reduce the impact on the environment and Himalayas, “AG said.
Referring to the agency AG that GSI and THDC have been issued to suggest mitigation measures for the Chardham project, which acts as a path of feeder for the border area, Bench said, “This is the good thing they do now.
It’s better than never.” AG told that the border road was built exclusively by the Border Road Organization (Bro), but the Chardham project was executed under the supervision of Bro, the National Highway Infrastructure Development Company and the National Pwd through the involvement of private contractors.
AG said the government was open to advice from the “Residents ‘Petitioners’ Organization for Doon Green” because it took additional mitigation measures in the construction of the Chardham road project.
“The government will definitely apply any additional steps suggested by the court,” he said.
Chandrachud’s Justice LED bench ordered his decision about the central defense for SC order modification on September 8 8, 2020 which limited the width of the Chardham road to 5.5 meters.
The Center wants to take a walk with a paved shoulder into 10 meters wide.
Appearing for the Petitioner, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves said that they did not oppose the widening of the road for the needs of the army.
“But, the question is – Can Himalaya hold the widening of the road? The nature has answered the question as an incident after a landslide incident has made a wide road that cannot be accessed for vehicles.
5.5 meters wide is enough for the troop movement,” he said.
Gonsalves said, “Let the natural atmosphere and natural environment of the holy places not violated by developments that have no meaning will destroy the impact of the Himalayas and in turn the entire ecology and state climate for generations to come.
The time for mitigation steps has long been lost.
It’s time to restore nature.
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