No rethink at the end of the tunnel November 22, 2023 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/no-rethink-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/ , It is in this decade that the Himalayas have been tunnelled, blasted, cut, gouged, turned to rubble and concretised as never before in the range’s 50 million years of existence. Hydel projects, rail tracks at heights of 1,000 mtrs in narrow valleys, and road construction, all require tunnels. Rampant construction of hotels and torrents of unregulated tourism require tunnels for car parks. The railway tunnel from Karnaprayag to Rishikesh is 110 mtrs long. The total might exceed 400 km by the time all the dhams are connected. https://i.redd.it/no-rethink-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-v0-nslc0pppxt1c1.png?s=890ba7828baf3cde6812070f4b8f8681d1b566bc
Response: by a Chandrasekar Punekar Typical selective outcry from activists lobby . Equipped with modern technologies , the world is accomplishing hitherto unsurmounatble tasks of creating great engineering marvel in construction. Be it tunnel under the sea , or reclaiming sea to build a city or making rail bridges and laying rail lines at high altitudes , modern engineering has accomplished daunting tasks. The Guanjiao tunnel in Tibet has been done much earlier without any accompanying disasters in Tibetans mountains , Eisenover tunnel in rocky mountains too was completed quite long ago . The problem with this world is that there are one too many Medha patkar kind to decry all projects concerned with development and progress to mankind .