Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sanjay Kumar Vs Union of India dated 09/11/2023. The grievance raised by the Applicant is that National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) has failed to take action for construction of landslide protection gallery, slope protection work and river …
NEW DELHI: States through which the Ganga flows will soon be given additional funding to operate and maintain projects to clean the river and restore its environmental health. However, States lobbied for more aid and free power to those affected by scrapping of hydel projects. At a meeting of the …
THE nearly 3,500 residents of Bhatwadi village along the Uttarkashi-Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand saw their world come crashing down around them on the night of August 12/13. A massive landslide that hit the village formed cracks up to five metres wide on the highway and these crept up the hills …
THE three-member Group of Ministers (GoM), reviewing the construction of dams on the Ganga, have scrapped the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Uttarakhand. The August 20 decision comes after protests by socio-religious groups and environmentalists against the 600 MW project on the Bhagirathi, a Ganga tributary. They said the river …
A joint statement on the Government's decision regarding Vedanta. A recent decision by Mr. Jairam Ramesh, [Union] Minister [of State] for Environment and Forests banning the mining of Bauxite in the Niyamgiri hill of Kalahandi district in Orissa (which is home to Tribal communities) by Vedanta Resources is a matter …
In what could be the first for the country, the government today said NTPC would be duly compensated for the cancellation of its 600-mega watt (Mw) hydropower project at Loharinag Pala in Uttarakhand. The compensation could run into Rs 1,000 crore.Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said a Cabinet note …
New Delhi: After the intervention of the Congress leadership, the Centre on Friday reversed its earlier decision and ordered closure of the 600 MW Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project on the Bhagirathi river, a tributary of the Ganga. Citing ecological impacts, the government
NEW DELHI: Faced with a wave of religious sentiment about the Ganga, as well as activists clamouring about environment damage, the government has reversed its position on the Loharinag Pala hydel project. The 600 MW dam, currently being constructed by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on the Bhagirathi river …
AN INDEFINITE fast and protests are back at Loharinag Pala dam site on the Bhagirathi river, a key tributary of the Ganga in Uttarakhand, as the government decided to revive a 600 MW hydroelectric project on the recommendations of a Group of Ministers (GoM). The GoM said the dam, when …
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Four members of the newly-constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) have threatened to resign following a report of the Group of Ministers recommending renewal of construction of the Loharinag Pala hydro-electric project on the Bagirathi river. Four out of the nine expert members in the NGBRA, …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to commission studies to assess the feasibility of the hydro electric projects proposed on the rivers Bhagirathi and Alaknanda. The studies will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. "In view of the fact that …
DEHRA DUN, 18 JULY: Heavy rainfall in the state has affected the power production due to the heavy deposition of silt in the rivers like Bhagirathi, Yamuna (in photo) and Tons valleys. Incessant and heavy rainfall in the hill state not only flooded the Himalayan rivers with water, but also …
Even after a technical committee of the government put in a report stating that the 600MW Loharinag Pala dam can be shut down, the government has been unable to take a call on the hydel project on Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand. The last meeting chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee …
Minister of forest & environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh, announced the scrapping of two major hydel projects, the Pala Maneri (480 mw) and the Bhaironghati (381 mw) on the Bhagirathi river. Mr Ramesh however, admitted that work on the Loharinag Pala run of the river power project, also on the Bhagirathi …
Incomplete Project May Aggravate Landslide Risk, But It Can Be Mitigated: MoEF Panel Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The third big dam on the Bhagirathi river
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun May 31, 2010, 0:24 IST With Rs 750 crore on stake, Uttarakhand has urged the Centre to convene an early meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority to decide the future of three major hydro power projects on the Bhagirathi in Uttarakashi district. …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi May 01, 2010, 1:58 IST The government is taking a fresh look at the 600 Mw Loharinag-Pala hydel project on the Bhagirathi river following an expert committee report cautioning against stopping work at an advanced stage, as it might be disastrous for an active seismic …
The Supreme Court was approached on Tuesday by an environmentalist ex-Naval officer seeking a direction to the Centre to take immediate steps to protect Bhagirathi and Bhilangana, the tributaries of Ganga, which he said faced a threat of drying fast. The petition was filed after the Uttarakhand government had recently …
