Dams/ Irrigation

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by a tyre pyrolysis plant, village Sakauti, Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 28/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …

Periphytonic diversity in Bhagirathi: Preimpoundment study of Tehri dam reservoir

Tehri hydroelectric project of 2,400 MW capacity, the Asia's highest dam constructed on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand is one of the most debatable dams of the country. The fluvial system of Bhagirathi and Bhilagana has been converted into a huge lentic water reservoir. Therefore, the information on periphytonic diversity …

IAMWARM project: Boon or bane to farming communities in Tamil Nadu?

In February 2007 an agreement was signed between the World Bank, the Central Government, and Tamil Nadu state government for a mega project titled Irrigated Agriculture Modernization & Water-bodies Restoration & Management (IAMWARM). The project cost of US $556 million (Rs 2,547 Cr) was met through a loan from the …

Opposition mounting to Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Project

SILCHAR, Sept 24: The fate of nearly four-decade old 1500 MW multipurpose Barak Dam at Tipaimukh has again been pushed to uncertainty. In fact, this project has been caught in the vortex of controversies due mainly to the objection of Manipur Government over apprehension that it would inundate a large …

Sikkim gives hydel projects to developers

Gangtok, Sept 23: Months after scrapping its agreement with private developers for construction of 11 projects for delay in commencement of work, the state has finally relented and returned two of the projects to the original developers, an official said today. The State Government has re-issued letter of intent to …

Tipaimukh dam: Forest Department clearance yet to be obtained

Imphal, Sept 21: As the State Forest Department has been overlooked on the issue of bio-diversity in the report prepared by a consultant hired by NEEPCO in to seek environmental clearance of the proposed 1,500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Project, the biodiversity report of the project is likely to be reviewed. …

Water project awaits inauguration

Ongole, Sept. 21: Kandula Obula Reddy Gundlakamma project in Prakasam district is the only irrigation project out of 76 irrigation projects started by congress government in the state under Jalayagnam programme completed swiftly. It is waiting for its opening for the past one year . Opening of this project by …

Gandhigiri in Sikkim

The indigenous Lepchas of Sikkim are using Gandhian methods of protest to prevent construction of hydel projects that will destroy their land and the environment. At a time when politics has been reduced to a numbers game, they know that their minority status is against them. But they are determined …

NHPC to build two projects in Myanmar

To form a joint venture with DHPI Centre extends $60 m for the Thahtay Chaung project Power Grid to execute three major transmission lines NEW DELHI: In what is being termed as a

CDWP approves Basha Dam funds

The Central Development Working Party (CWDP) approved Rs 116.607 million for the acquisition of land and the resettlement plan for the Basha Dam project in a meeting in Islamabad on Thursday. The government had allocated Rs 200 million for the project in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of 2008-09. …

Farmers to get aid on water-saving systems

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Agriculture Department has decided to give assistance to the farmers to lay underground pipeline systems, install sprinkler irrigation systems and construct tanks in order to adopt

India blocking Chenab waters

Nirupama Subramanian ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says India has blocked the Chenab waters from flowing across to its side, endangering its kharif crop as a result. Water and Power Secretary Ismail Qureshi told Geo television that the matter had already been taken up with New Delhi through the Indian High Commission, and …

Small fry to build big canals under Vibrant Gujarat

GANDHINAGAR: Vibrant Gujarat wants to dot some of state's major canal networks, including the Narmada main canal, with mini-micro-hydro power projects. And imagine whom does it propose to choose for this - a company called Krishna Kanhaiya Hydro Power Pvt Ltd, owned by a UK-based NRI Riyen Ramani. Already, it …

Rs 11.3 billion being spent to improve irrigation system

Punjab government is spending Rs 11.3 billion during current fiscal period on the improvement of irrigation system in the province. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Monday that under the programme 37,000 kilometres long irrigation network would be improved in Punjab. Under the programme, special attention would also be …

Enter the tunnel

A run of the river project is of two types, one that requires a long tunnel and the other that requires a huge reservoir. The river is diverted through a tunnel and the water falls on a turbine from a height, generating electricity. In a reservoir-run of the river project, …

Risks yours, profits mine

A series of hydropower projects on the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda may reduce the Ganga to a trickle. But project proponents will still be making money. Why project developers aren

Behind closed door

The facts in the EIA report presented to villagers during the public hearing of Pala Maneri were different from the ones submitted to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

Myth of power

Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be diverted to produce power. While there may not be enough flow to run the turbines, there

Climate uncertainties

Both Alaknanda and Bhagirathi are glacier-fed rivers and the hydrology of these rivers is directly impacted by climate change. The rate at which the glacier is melting has to be a consideration for the running of these projects.

Living made difficult

Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.

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