SC Notice on Plea Seeking 'Carrying Capacity' Study of 11 Himalayan States, 2 UTs after Joshimath Crisis

The petition mentioned that the Himalayan states – Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Sikkim, Mizoram, and Manipur – besides union territories Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, serve nearly 50 million guests round the year, but there has been no assessment on the 'carrying capacity' of the ecologically fragile areas

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