The Sitting Duck on the Riverbed: Why Himalayan Hydropower Must Rethink Worker Safety: Santa places hundreds of contract workers in temporary dormitories directly along a low riverbed to save logistics costs. Banta evokes the painful real-world lessons of the 2021 Chamoli and 2023 Sikkim disasters to explain why gorge-throat infrastructure is defenseless without strict high-ground zoning and automated upstream early warning tripwires.