The devastation in Dharali village near Gangotri is yet another wake-up call for the Himalayan state serially afflicted by natural calamities since the 2013 Kedarnath floods. Every monsoon, Uttarakhand braces for nature’s worst, faltering under yet another disaster. The August 5 cloudburst and flash floods that wrecked Dharali village is a fresh wake-up call for a state bearing the brunt of calamities for over two decades. Grim tragedies include the 2013 Kedarnath floods killing over 6,000 people, 2021 avalanche in Chamoli damaging hydropower projects, 2023 monsoon causing nearly 100 landslide…
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