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Ravi Chopra
Ravi Chopra, a Distinguished Alumni Awardee of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, is an environmental researcher. He has headed two Supreme Court directed committees to investigate the impacts of hydropower dams in Uttarakhand and to monitor the construction of the Char Dham Pariyojana. He was also a member of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (2009–2013).
Joshimath has been sinking slowly for years due to various reasons, but the recent accelerated sinking may be due to the execution of major projects. Little has ever been done to mitigate the causes…