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A total of 800 people, belonging to 237 families, have so far been shifted to safety by the district administration, according to the daily bulletin of the Disaster Management Authority.
As the lawyer for the petitioner submitted that people in Joshimath are dying, the top court told him curtly,"You don't want to use these proceedings for sound bytes in social media."
The predictions ranged between 7.5 and 10 centimetres (cm) displacement for buildings in Joshimath which is enough to cause large scale cracks in buildings, IIT Ropar said in a statement.
The direction came after satellite images released by the Indian Space Research Organisation showed the rapid rate of subsidence in Joshimath between Dec 27 and January 8, fuelling concerns over the situation, even as Uttarkhand Minister Dhan Singh Rawat said on Saturday that the ISRO images have been withdrawn.
On the basis of ISRO's preliminary report, the Uttarakhand govt is conducting rescue operations in danger-prone areas and shifting the people there to safer places on priority.
A fresh round of talks was held between Secretary to the Chief Minister and the protesters who have been demanding compensation on the lines of Badrinath before the demolition exercise is undertaken.
Hotels Malari Inn and Mount View were leaning towards each other dangerously, posing a threat to human settlements around them and the Uttarakhand government had on Monday directed the razing of unstable structures, starting with these two buildings.
'There are democratically elected institutions to look into it. Everything important should not come to us,' said SC.
MHA officials and the National Disaster Management Authority met Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday to assess the situation in Joshimath.
Researchers have found that many areas in Kuttanad have subsided by 20 cm to 30 cm after the 2018 floods.