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INSANE: Subsidence spurs checks on india s hydro push | Vintage Vibes

Residents take part in a sit-in protest to halt the demolition of two hotels deemed unsafe by authorities in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, India. REUTERS

Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling -- a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC.

Residents in the tourist hub of Joshimath are demanding a halt to the project, in the latest of a wave of protests across regions where hydroelectric facilities are being built, as India boosts clean energy to cut its planet-heating carbon emissions.

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