Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The ruling Congress Government in Assam has come under severe criticism for its dithering on the expert panel report that suggested complete halt of all construction works of the ongoing Lower Subansiri Hydro Power Project site at Gerukamukh. The 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Power project, being implemented by the National …
Noor Mohammad New Delhi: Hydro power, traditionally the preserve of the public sector, is fast turning to be an area where only private players can survive. Unable to face stiff competition from private companies who snatch away projects from them by offering better deals to the state governments, hydro PSUs …
Guwahati:An Expert Group comprising experts from Indian Institute of Technology (Guwahati), Gauhati University and Dibrugarh has given its opinion against construction of the mega dam by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary considering the sensitive geological and seismological character of …
Tripping of the circuits of a 400-Kv Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) power line early this morning resulted in reduced power generation in the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) and Northeastern Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Two mega hydroelectric power projects of National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) have come under the scanner of a House Committee of Assam Assembly that has recommended a temporary freeze on construction activity. The House panel was constituted to study and examine the downstream …
The interim report of the House Committee of the Assam Legislative Assembly constituted to study/examine the impact of the big dams being constructed on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river on the downstream areas of the State has called for keeping in abeyance all construction activities on major dams …
BHUBANESWAR: While the State is reeling under power crisis, the Government has not taken any proactive measures during the last 15 years to add hydro generation capacity despite huge potential. The Orissa Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) was incorporated on April 21, 1995 in pursuance to the Orissa Electricity Reforms Act …
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar: The central-sector utility company, National Hydro Power Corp (NHPC), and the Orissa government have finalised a deal for setting up three hydro- power projects at Sindol on river Mahanadi downstream Hirakud dam. The NHPC and the state government-owned Orissa Hydro Power Corp (OHPC) will be signing an …
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Arunachal Pradesh Government on sharing power to be generated in the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP). This development has taken place in the background of the recommendation made by an expert committee appointed as per …
New Delhi: Highways minister Kamal Nath may have been harping upon exceeding the target of laying 20km of new roads in the country every day but his ministry has been dragging its feet since August 2009 over repairing a bridge in Assam, leaving staterun hydel utility NHPC stranded with vital …
A PIL was filed in Guwahati High Court objecting against construction of a big dam at Gerukamikh undertaken by National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation (NHPC. However the honourable High Court after hearing the litigant parties rejected it on the ground that as per Article 262 of the Constitution a hearing on …
Researchers working on the Subansiri river have expressed the fear that the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydel Project (LSHP) may mean death to this major north bank tributary of the Brahmaputra. They also demanded a fresh and transparent environment impact assessment (EIA) report through an in-depth study for the project. It …
With huge potential to generate power in the Northeastern region remaining untapped, the Government has earmarked an investment of over Rs 37,400 crore for setting up power projects to add 5,350 MW capacity by 2016, reports PTI. The Ministry of Power plans to add 5,350 MW power generation capacity in …
Demanding renegotiation of pacts with the National Hydro Project Corporation (NHPC),the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today observed that the scrapping of this agreement was important to make the state economically self-reliant. This demand was made by former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig while addressing a one-day seminar on self-rule …
