I know that it's almost impossible to read this one page write up on #Mussoorie by team HT in this mornings paper on Twitter. So kindly allow me to share 3 key summary points as understood by me:
1. Unregulated and illegal construction frenzy in Mussoorie has totally exposed the failure of Uttarakhand govt and it's agencies. Directions of courts mean nothing and have been ignored with profit driven builders gambling with lives.
2. Authorities are issuing reports and guidelines yet enforce nothing, thereby enabling illegal hotels, choking roads, destabilizing slopes, inviting landslides and predictable disaster.
3. Tourism greed has trumped sustainability with overwhelmed infrastructure, mismanaged waste and sidelined residents. This has turned the fragile hill town of Mussoorie into a catastrophe. Local political leadership accepts that there is a problem but is toothless and has no solutions to offer.
@neerajsantoshi
I have serious reservations on making faster roads to entry towns to the hills, ie Dehradun. We can’t discuss this without talking about how the carrying capacity up the slope is creaking - there are just too many cars in Mussoorie and other areas and no tourist wants to walk.
What happens now if the PLAN starts aggressively patrolling the Indian Ocean now. After all, it’s “international waters”. Will the Indian government have the spine to object that?
All those hiding behind “international waters” excuse have a serious case of amnesia.
Indian Navy is like the “guardian” of the Indian Ocean as we have been reminded time and again.
Note that Ulaa is touted as a privacy-first/secure alternative to other browsers.
But it is inherently LESS SECURE compared to most browsers because it includes the root cert of CCA India. This cert was thrown out of most browsers in 2014 because NIC issued fake certificates for many domains including google.
CCA/NIC are owned by the govt and it is very easy for them to man-in-the-middle tap into anything you are doing with Ulaa browser.
Google ruthlessly monitors and remove certs that fall out of any security compliance and thus removed India/China's and does not include US govt operated root CA certs as well.
Did you know?
The excessive rainfall and floods have currently devastated crops across 12 lakh hectares in Marathwada.
15 lakh farmers in nearly 4000 villages have been affected.
50 people and over 1000 animals have died.