Caught between a rock and a hard place: Joshimath faces an uncertain future

Educators need a plan ambitious enough to remedy enormous learning losses

After what happened in Tehri, the vexed rehabilitation issue concerning crisis-ridden Joshimath has come back to haunt the Uttarakhand government.

With Joshimath facing an uncertain future owing to land subsidence, which has caused widespread cracks in houses and roads and water seepage, a demand is also growing in certain quarters for setting up a new Joshimath for the rehabilitation of the affected people on the lines of New Tehri.

New Tehri town was built after the planning of the mega 2,400-Mw Tehri hydel project in the Garhwal region to settle the dam-affected people.

New Tehri town is now the district