The Ganga’s Last Stand: How Bureaucracy and Hydropower are Choking India’s Sacred River
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The Ganga’s Last Stand: How Bureaucracy and Hydropower are Choking India’s Sacred River

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 13, 2025 20:48 IST - 16 MINS READ The Ganga and the Himalaya are sacred to millions of Indians, yet these iconic entities of veneration face unjust and unethical treatment. Supreme Court initiates inquiry into impact of HEPs In 2012 the Wildlife Institute of India recommended cancelling 24 proposed dams in the Ganga basin, citing their potential for “irreversible impact on biodiversity”. This led to an apparent “inter-ministerial conflict”, which was purportedly resolved in 2019 when the Prime Minister’s Office, after a meeting chaired by the then Principal Secretary, Nripendra Mishra, intervened and stated the following: Subsequently in 2021, the government submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court regarding a “consensus” on these seven projects but did not refer to the “policy decision” meeting of the PMO or the decisions taken therein. Five new projects approved in the Cabinet Secretary’s report are justified as being outside “GLOF” paths, but not all flash floods are glacial. The Supreme Court’s 2013 suo motu response to the Kedarnath disaster initially focussed on assessing the implications of existing and under-construction hydropower projects in the Ganga basin.

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Himachal Pradesh: People threaten to launch mass agitation against hydroelectric projects
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Himachal Pradesh: People threaten to launch mass agitation against hydroelectric projects

New Indian Express  

CHANDIGARH: People are up in arms against the Himachal Pradesh government's plan to commission mega hydroelectric projects in the Chenab basin located across Kullu, Chamba,Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and Shimla districts. Talking with this newspaper, Advocate Sudarshan Thakur, a member of the people's movement against the 400 MW Seli hydro project around a decade back says, "the main reason for opposing these …

River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster
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6 days, 6 hours ago

River interlinking, the fount of environmental disaster

The Hindu  

On December 25, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, which aims to solve the water scarcity in the Bundelkhand region that covers parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Initially termed the ‘National Water Grid’, this concept re-emerged as the ‘River-Interlinking Project’ from the Ministry of Water Resources to transfer surplus …

Why China wants control over a vital Indian resource
1 week, 1 day ago

Why China wants control over a vital Indian resource

India Today  

India and China, already at odds over various geopolitical and territorial issues, could soon face a new frontier of conflict—water. A massive $137 billion dam that China plans to construct on the Brahmaputra River has sparked fresh concerns in India, highlighting a long-standing fear of water being weaponised. With its control over the river’s origin, China can manipulate water flow, …

China claims its world's biggest dam over Brahmaputra won't affect water flow to India
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1 week, 2 days ago

China claims its world's biggest dam over Brahmaputra won't affect water flow to India

India TV News  

Beijing: China on Monday reiterated its plan to build the world's biggest dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet near the Indian border, saying the planned project has gone through rigorous scientific verification and will not have any negative impact on downstream countries -- India and Bangladesh. China's construction of the hydropower project over in the Yarlung Tsangpo River downstream …

Why India, Bangladesh must worry about China's mega Brahmaputra dam
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Why India, Bangladesh must worry about China's mega Brahmaputra dam

India Today  

China’s decision to construct the world’s ‘largest’ dam on the Brahmaputra river, locally known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, is a transformative moment in hydropower engineering. However, the dam also underscores China’s geopolitical aspirations, raising concerns about its impact on downstream countries like India and Bangladesh. By harnessing the hydropower potential of the Brahmaputra, the project is expected to …

Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?

India Today  

China’s controversial plan to construct the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet is raising alarm bells in India, as tensions between the two nations escalate. Beijing claims that the ambitious project is primarily for energy generation, but experts are concerned that it could drastically disrupt the river’s water flow, sparking a potential water crisis for millions downstream. …

China Plans Dam Near India That Could Be World’s Biggest
2 weeks, 4 days ago

China Plans Dam Near India That Could Be World’s Biggest

Live Mint  

-- Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. China is pressing ahead with plans to construct a mega-dam near its contested border with India, a colossal undertaking that could generate three times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam. The dam could become a source of tension between …

China plans to build world's largest dam on Brahmaputra near India border
2 weeks, 6 days ago

China plans to build world's largest dam on Brahmaputra near India border

India Today  

China has approved the construction of the world's largest dam, stated to be the planet's biggest infra project costing USD 137 billion, on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states - India and Bangladesh. The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung …

Crisis looms over Uttarakhand's rivers amid climate change and human intervention
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Crisis looms over Uttarakhand's rivers amid climate change and human intervention

New Indian Express  

According to information obtained by this newspaper, data from the Water Resources Department reveals that there are 288 water sources in the state with less than 50% of their original water levels remaining. Experts warn that if immediate measures are not taken, these vital water sources could cease to exist. "This is just one example; similar crises are emerging across …

‘Game changer’ river interlinking project in Bihar set to get union cabinet nod
4 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Game changer’ river interlinking project in Bihar set to get union cabinet nod

Hindustan Times  

The much anticipated Kosi-Mechi project to interlink the two rivers in north Bihar, billed as a game changer for irrigation and flood management in the flood-prone region, is likely to get union cabinet nod soon, a top state government official said. Barrages on rivers in six districts Meanwhile, the Bihar government is planning to construct barrages on several rivers in …

Ganges, Brahmaputra among major South Asian river basins to feel impact of climate change: Report
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Ganges, Brahmaputra among major South Asian river basins to feel impact of climate change: Report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, The alarming impact of climate change will be felt on South Asia's major river basins, including the Ganges, Indus and the Brahmaputra, according to a new report. The scale of climate change impacts in the Indus basin is overwhelming, undermining food security, livelihoods and water security, the report said. While currently there are no major water diversions in …

Reviving India’s Great Rivers: How Modi’s Leadership is Saving the Lifelines of India
10 months, 1 week ago

Reviving India’s Great Rivers: How Modi’s Leadership is Saving the Lifelines of India

News 18  

India is a land of rivers. That the initiative is led by the National Mission for Clean Ganga – the body overseeing the Namami Gange project – is noteworthy and speaks to the impact India’s effort to clean its most revered river has had on the international community. The Centre has taken several measures under the National River Conservation Plan …

Interlinking of Rivers: Solution to India’s growing water problem or recipe to ecological imbalance?
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Interlinking of Rivers: Solution to India’s growing water problem or recipe to ecological imbalance?

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: At the historic Mahabalipuram a few days ago, an All India Secretaries’ Conference on Water Vision@2047-Way Ahead was organised by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti. The Centre and some ‘beneficiary’ lower riparian states argue that India has a rapidly growing problem of water stress and there is a need to use most of the runoff to meet its …

Hydropower projects on the Teesta have weakened the topography of Sikkim, causing disasters like the recent floods
1 year, 2 months ago

Hydropower projects on the Teesta have weakened the topography of Sikkim, causing disasters like the recent floods

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 25, 2023 21:03 IST - 12 MINS READ On the night of October 3, 2023, the South Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim breached, causing a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. Located approximately 60 kilometres downstream of the lake, in Chungthang town of Mangan district, was the 1,200 MW Teesta III dam, the biggest hydropower project in Sikkim. “Rivers …

CEA issues guidelines for hydro projects after disaster in Sikkim
1 year, 3 months ago

CEA issues guidelines for hydro projects after disaster in Sikkim

Live Mint  

India’s apex power planning body, the Central Electricity Authority, has come up with guidelines for slope stability—inclines that can withstand movement—in hydropower projects after heavy rains and glacial lake floods damaged a dam in Sikkim. “The examination of upper reaches may include study of hazards due to avalanche, GLOF, landslide hazard analysis of slopes above the reservoir rim area, among …

India’s river interlinking projects are changing monsoon patterns, may worsen water stress: study
1 year, 3 months ago

India’s river interlinking projects are changing monsoon patterns, may worsen water stress: study

The Hindu  

For four decades now, India has put its weight behind river interlinking projects that transfer excess water from one river basin to the other — a $168 billion answer to a swelling water stress crisis. A new study published in Nature Communications, however, challenges these claims: many hydro-linking projects in India and globally are altering monsoon cycles, disturbing complex hydro-meteorological …

Explained | Himachal floods: a man-made disaster?
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | Himachal floods: a man-made disaster?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Flash floods during this year’s monsoon season have caused unprecedented damage to both lives and assets in Himachal Pradesh. Although climate change is expected to have played a hand in causing the high precipitation leading to these flash floods, human induced disasters resulting from planned development have played a significant role in causing such colossal losses. …

Uttarakhand CM seeks ₹ 1774 crore for Song Dam drinking water project in Dehradun
1 year, 6 months ago

Uttarakhand CM seeks ₹ 1774 crore for Song Dam drinking water project in Dehradun

Hindustan Times  

Dehradun: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday met Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to request the release of ₹1774 crore for the Song Dam drinking water project as special assistance from the central government. Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami asked the Centre to waive off the ceiling on the loan amount that can availed in externally aided …

Arunachal Pradesh farmers’ body rejects 10,000 MW hydropower plan on Siang River
1 year, 9 months ago

Arunachal Pradesh farmers’ body rejects 10,000 MW hydropower plan on Siang River

The Hindu  

Two Arunachal Pradesh-based organisations, including a farmers’ collective, have asked the State Government to scrap a deal for executing a proposed 10,000 MW hydropower project on the Siang River. Accusing the State Government of inking a deal with the National Hydropower Power Corporation for the mega-dam without taking the local people into confidence, Siang Indigenous Farmers’ Forum and the Indigenous …

Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower plant: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis
1 year, 11 months ago

Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower plant: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:45 IST Tapovan Vishnugad, the 520 MW hydropower project undertaken by NTPC, has been controversial at least since 2009, as it is again now in January 2023. In 2009, when the Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower project’s tunnel boring machine on Dhauliganga river punctured an aquifer near Selang, it led to a daily discharge of millions of …

India plans ‘buffers’ in proposed Arunachal hydropower project to counter ‘China threat’
1 year, 11 months ago

India plans ‘buffers’ in proposed Arunachal hydropower project to counter ‘China threat’

The Hindu  

Concerns over China’s proposed 60,000 MW hydropower in Medog, Tibet are influencing the design of a proposed hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Siang district. Still only in the planning stage, a ‘pre-feasibility report’ on the 11,000 MW project, or more than five times the size of the largest such projects in India – has been submitted to the Central …

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India’s hydropower push
2 years ago

Sinking Himalayan town puts spotlight on India’s hydropower push

Al Jazeera  

Farmer Shiv Lal barely slept this week, overcome by worry about the deep cracks scarring his land and hundreds of other homes and buildings in a sinking town in India’s Himalayas. While NTPC officials and some geologists have ruled out tunnelling work as the cause of this month’s devastation in Joshimath, residents’ angry protests have reignited debate about the construction …

No funds allotted for Bengal's flood management programme despite nod for investment
2 years, 1 month ago

No funds allotted for Bengal's flood management programme despite nod for investment

India Today  

The West Bengal government's mega flood management programmer -'Ghatal Master Plan' - which aims to bring major relief to the people living in the low lying areas of Ghatal and adjoining areas of West Bengal's Midnapore from immense flooding every year is yet to see the light of the day. TMC MP from Ghatal Deepak Adhikari alias Dev has sought …

In her new book Watershed, climate expert Mridula Ramesh stresses on urgent need of water management in India
3 years ago

In her new book Watershed, climate expert Mridula Ramesh stresses on urgent need of water management in India

Firstpost  

“While conscience is good for spurring a change, it is less effective in sustaining a change. and Founder of the Sundaram Climate Institute, is out with a new book titled Watershed: How We Destroyed India’s Water and How We Can Save It. As water becomes more precious going forward, water management births new sectors – sewage treatment, waste water markets, …

Climate change altering Ganga's flow, more floods predicted: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate change altering Ganga's flow, more floods predicted: Study

India Today  

A new study from the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur hints at more floods from the Ganga basin as human activities and climate change alter its water flow. The study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides insights into how climate change and human activities like building dams affect the region. Somil Swarnkar, a postdoctoral …

Flood management that cannot be watered down
3 years, 3 months ago

Flood management that cannot be watered down

The Hindu  

Over the years, many of Bihar’s districts have been facing serious challenges with recurrent and massive flooding. Flood protection work As in the existing India-Nepal Agreement on water resources, the State government is authorised to execute flood protection works up to critical stretches inside Nepal territory along the India-Nepal border. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Water Resources Department, Government …

Activists oppose Centre’s nod to select hydropower projects in Uttarakhand
3 years, 4 months ago

Activists oppose Centre’s nod to select hydropower projects in Uttarakhand

The Hindu  

A group of environmentalists, historians, geologists and intellectuals have petitioned the Union Environment Ministry to recant its endorsement of seven hydroelectric power projects in Uttarakhand. The signatories include Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh, MP, Rajya Sabha; Justice Giridhar Malviya, Chancellor, Benares Hindu University, Ravi Chopra, chairman, Supreme Court-appointed expert body on impacts of hydro projects, Shashi Shekhar, ex-Secretary, Water Resources Ministry …

A hydro onslaught the Himalayas cannot take
3 years, 4 months ago

A hydro onslaught the Himalayas cannot take

The Hindu  

In normal circumstances, when a mistake is understood and suffered, one tends to learn from it and not repeat it. The background The affidavit filed recently by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in an ongoing matter in the Supreme Court of India has recommended the construction of seven partially constructed hydroelectric projects in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Politicians …

A fine line: The Hindu Editorial on development and conservation
3 years, 4 months ago

A fine line: The Hindu Editorial on development and conservation

The Hindu  

The need for infrastructure development in the Himalayan region rubs up against the environmental and ecological challenges that they pose. The Uttarakhand government has for decades envisaged hydroelectric projects as the way forward to power the State, premised on the region’s undulating topography. There have been divisions even within various Central ministries: the Water Resources Ministry, which manages the NMCG, …

Explained | Why are hydropower projects in the Himalayas risky?
3 years, 4 months ago

Explained | Why are hydropower projects in the Himalayas risky?

The Hindu  

The Environment Ministry, in an affidavit placed in the Supreme Court earlier this month, has disclosed that it has permitted seven hydroelectric power projects, which are reportedly in advanced stages of construction, to go ahead. The Das committee recommended all six projects with design modifications to some, and this gives lie to the Environment Ministry’s current stance. Following the break …

Ministries reach consensus on hydropower projects in Himalayas
3 years, 4 months ago

Ministries reach consensus on hydropower projects in Himalayas

The Hindu  

Six months after a devastating flood of rock, ice and debris gushed down the Rishiganga river in Uttarakhand and killed at least 200 and severely damaged two hydropower projects, three Central Ministries, which initially had dissenting views on the future of hydroelectric power projects have agreed to a consensus. According to an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court this month, …

Hydropower projects are wreaking havoc in the Himalayas
3 years, 9 months ago

Hydropower projects are wreaking havoc in the Himalayas

Al Jazeera  

On February 7, a Himalayan glacier broke and caused a flash flood in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand. “It shows that nature will strike back if we disregard the ecological limits of fragile regions like the Himalayas through reckless dam building and other infrastructure development.” After the 2013 flash flood, the Supreme Court of India also mandated a national …

Himalayan tragedy in Uttarakhand
3 years, 10 months ago

Himalayan tragedy in Uttarakhand

The Hindu  

When will the authorities learn from past experiences? Completely disregarding environmentalists’ recommendations, the government pushed through its foolhardy programme of developing run-of-river hydroelectric power projects, damming and tunnelling rivers in the process, blasting mountains to make roads and cutting down trees, destabilising the already fragile high-altitude Himalayan mountainous zones, thus creating disasters like the one unfolding in Chamoli district of …

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Unscientific Cutting of Himalayan Soil Causing Disasters, Says Former GSI Official
3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Unscientific Cutting of Himalayan Soil Causing Disasters, Says Former GSI Official

News 18  

Unscientific cutting of Himalayan soil by infrastructure projects is disrupting the fragile ecology of the region and causing disasters, warned a former official of the Geological Survey of India on Tuesday. Former additional director general of GSI Tribhuwan Singh Pangti, who was associated with the now demolished Rishiganga hydroelectric project for initial two years as a geologist, said the hydroelectric …

The Hindu Explains | Why are geologists worried about a slew of hydroelectric projects and environmental stress in Uttarakhand?
3 years, 11 months ago

The Hindu Explains | Why are geologists worried about a slew of hydroelectric projects and environmental stress in Uttarakhand?

The Hindu  

The story so far: A snow avalanche triggered possibly by a landslide caused a flash flood in the Rishi Ganga river, a tributary of the Alaknanda in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, on a sunny morning on February 7, washing away a functional small hydroelectric project and destroying the under-construction 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad project of the NTPC on the Dhauli …

Uttarakhand Glacier Burst Fallout: Power Project Plans in Eco-fragile Himachal Regions Spark Fears Among Locals, Experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand Glacier Burst Fallout: Power Project Plans in Eco-fragile Himachal Regions Spark Fears Among Locals, Experts

News 18  

The Uttarakhand glacier disaster has sparked off fears hundreds of kilometres away. Residents of the Lahaul-Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh are up against proposed power projects in the ecologically fragile Chenab basin. The Himachal Pradesh government has already allocated several power projects in the Chenab basin. Concerned by the Chamoli mishap, residents of Tandi and Goshal panchayats held a meeting …

Until about 10 years ago, I believed that it was possible to have hydropower projects in Uttarakhand: PSI Director
3 years, 11 months ago

Until about 10 years ago, I believed that it was possible to have hydropower projects in Uttarakhand: PSI Director

The Hindu  

Ravi Chopra, Director, People’s Science Institute, has been a critic of hydropower projects in Uttarakhand and has chaired and been part of several committees that have deliberated on infrastructure development in the State, while staying true to the principles of sustainable environment. However, the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which was then led by Secretary, Mr. Shashi Shekhar, accepted our …

‘Himalayas are fragile and host to several complex processes that need to be monitored’
3 years, 11 months ago

‘Himalayas are fragile and host to several complex processes that need to be monitored’

The Hindu  

On February 7, a flash flood hurtled down in Chamoli, Uttarakhand killing at least 31 and destroying two hydropower projects. Kalachand Sain, Director, WIHG, says in an interview to The Hindu’s Jacob Koshy, that it was large rock falling on a hanging glacier that precipitated the avalanche and flood. The impact from the falling rock broke it and this mass …

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God's world: Growth' has a high price
3 years, 11 months ago

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God's world: Growth' has a high price

Deccan Chronicle  

Senior BJP leader Uma Bharati’s first reaction to the terrible news of the Chamoli glacier break/avalanche disaster on Sunday -- “I told you so” – fully aligns with the reservations of all those who put a higher value on conservation than on the development of natural resources for economic growth. On Sunday, a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke …

Dams and damages
3 years, 11 months ago

Dams and damages

The Hindu  

February 10, 2021 12:15 am | Updated 01:14 am IST In 2018, while travelling through the villages near the India-China border in Niti Valley in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, I stopped at Reni village, the birthplace of the iconic Chipko movement. Flouting all norms On February 7, two such hydropower projects located close to Reni suffered damages from flash floods that …

Troubled mountains: On Uttarakhand glacier disaster
3 years, 11 months ago

Troubled mountains: On Uttarakhand glacier disaster

The Hindu  

The staggering collapse of part of a glacier in Uttarakhand’s Nanda Devi mountain and the ensuing floods that have claimed many lives come as a deadly reminder that this fragile, geologically dynamic region can never be taken for granted. Once the crucible of environmentalism, epitomised by Sunderlal Bahuguna, Gaura Devi and the Chipko movement, the State’s deep gorges and canyons …

Projects above an elevation of 2,200 metres recipe for disaster, say experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Projects above an elevation of 2,200 metres recipe for disaster, say experts

The Hindu  

The hydropower projects in Uttarakhand are particularly vulnerable to damage by extreme flooding events such as the deluge in the Rishiganga river on Sunday that damaged at least two plants. There are eight projects above 25 MW and the damaged Tapovan-Vishnugadh project being developed by the National Thermal Power Corporation falls into this category, according to a reply to a …

Uttarakhand glacier disaster: What caused the deadly flash floods in India?
3 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand glacier disaster: What caused the deadly flash floods in India?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists are divided over what unleashed the deadly flash …

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Cost of ‘Development’ & Climate Change
3 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand Tragedy: Cost of ‘Development’ & Climate Change

The Quint  

For years environmentalists have been crying themselves hoarse about the model of development being followed in these fragile mountainscapes, and yet the advice has fallen on deaf years. Their river had been imprisoned and they wanted her to flow unfettered else they predicted many disasters would unfold. At Chamoli, the epicentre of today’s crisis, I had met Chandi Prasad Bhatt, …

As minister, I was against power projects on Ganga, its main tributaries: Uma Bharti
3 years, 11 months ago

As minister, I was against power projects on Ganga, its main tributaries: Uma Bharti

India TV News  

BJP leader Uma Bharti Sunday said the Uttarakhand flood tragedy triggered by a glacier burst is a matter of concern as well as a warning, and added that as a minister she had spoken against having any power project on the Ganga and its major tributaries. "When I was a minister, my ministry in its affidavit about the dams in …

Not just climate change, Chamoli disaster was human-induced
3 years, 11 months ago

Not just climate change, Chamoli disaster was human-induced

Hindustan Times  

The glacial burst in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, killing at least seven persons with another 170 feared dead, is nature’s way of telling humans that it can strike back when the ecological balance is destroyed. Officials carry out search and rescue operation at Tapovan Tunnel, after a glacier broke off in Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district causing a massive …

Uttarakhand glacier burst: NTPC says Tapovan hydel project partly damaged
3 years, 11 months ago

Uttarakhand glacier burst: NTPC says Tapovan hydel project partly damaged

India TV News  

Part of an under-construction hydropower project of state-run power major NTPC has been damaged by the avalanche in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday. Part of the under-construction Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project has faced damages while another privately-owned Rishi Ganga hydro project was completely devastated. "An avalanche near Tapovan in Uttarakhand has damaged a part of our under-construction hydropower project in …

Was Against Power Projects on Ganga, Its Main Tributaries, Says Uma Bharti Amid U'khand Tragedy
3 years, 11 months ago

Was Against Power Projects on Ganga, Its Main Tributaries, Says Uma Bharti Amid U'khand Tragedy

News 18  

BJP leader Uma Bharti Sunday said the Uttarakhand flood tragedy triggered by a glacier burst is a matter of concern as well as a warning, and added that as a minister she had spoken against having any power project on the Ganga and its major tributaries. In a series of tweets in Hindi, she said the glacier breaking off had …

Uma Bharati recalls her warning on Uttarakhand hydel projects
3 years, 11 months ago

Uma Bharati recalls her warning on Uttarakhand hydel projects

The Hindu  

Former water affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Uma Bharati on Monday said the Uttarakhand disaster- the reported breaking away of a part of a glacier at Nanda Devi- resulting in the death of over a 100 people was both a tragedy and a warning, and something she had warned about when she was minister. Sunday saw tragedy unfold in …

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