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Centre releases Rs 447 cr for Renuka Dam

Will release more funds for the project after Niti Aayog grants its approval After hanging fire for 22 years, the 175-m-high Renukaji Dam has finally set to see the light of day as the Ministry of Water Resources has released Rs 446. 96 crore to Himachal that will enable HP …

Centre releases Rs 447 cr for Renuka Dam

Will release more funds for the project after Niti Aayog grants its approval After hanging fire for 22 years, the 175-m-high Renukaji Dam has finally set to see the light of day as the Ministry of Water Resources has released Rs 446. 96 crore to Himachal that will enable HP …

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding the Renuka Dam project across river Giri, 02/02/2016

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Puran Chand & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh through its Secretary Environment to the Government of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 02/02/2016 regarding regarding the Renuka Dam project across river Giri. River Giri is a perennial river which flows …

Awaiting green nod, Renuka Dam gets Budget allocation

The ambitious Rs 3,600-crore project was aimed at providing 275 million gallons of water to Delhi every day The long-pending Renuka Dam project, which has been facing environmental clearance hurdles, and has been entangled in legal and political spats for over 20 years, has been allocated Rs 50 crore by …

Govt to revive Pabbar water supply project

Shimla, March 4: The Congress will again pursue the ambitious project to bring water for the state capital from the Pabbar river in Rohru, which was grounded due to the involvement of large stretches of dense forest area. The augmentation of water supply to the city by lifting water from …

Sheila urges Centre to fast track Renuka Dam project

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to Union Water Resources Minister P. K. Bansal to fast track the Renuka Dam project. The Chief Minister has expressed concern that further stalling of the project will jeopardise the city's water security. The dam has been proposed on the Giri River in Himachal …

Soil organic carbon store under different land use systems in Giri catchment of Himachal Pradesh

Soil samples for the estimation of organic carbon store were collected from the entire catchment area starting from Rajban to origin of Giri and all the land uses were covered to estimate soil organic carbon.

Waterbullying to sink 20 villages

Delhi eyes water from Himachal dam but without checking distribution losses in the city Fifty-year-old Jagir Singh Tomar is among the 700 families in Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh who would be affected by the proposed Renuka dam on Giri, a tributary of the Yamuna river. The project, via Haryana, …

Delhi eyes Himachal water

The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. It had hundreds of water bodies, but it has destroyed most of them and continues to destroy the remaining ones. For its supply of water Delhi …

Probe ordered into Giri water supply scheme

Shimla: The Rs 64-crore Giri Lift Water Supply Scheme has come under a scanner even before it could achieve its full capacity to supply 20 million litres of water per day to the state capital. The government suspects a big scam in the implementation of the project commissioned last year …

Massive dam to fill leaking buckets

The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation …

Renuka Dam gets green signal

The Environment Appraisals Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has agreed in principle to the construction of the Renuka Dam in Himachal Pradesh. With this clearance, the work on the dam is expected to pick up and conclude in six years time. The Dam, on the Giri River, …

Tele cables damage Giri water scheme supply line

Indiscriminate digging up of road sides in Himachal Pradesh are known to have posed dangers to many lives while driving on roads, but this time it has become responsible for aggravating Shimla's water problems. The telecom department, while laying its telephone cables, has damaged nearly 15 kilometres of main supply …

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