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 …
The Southern Provincial Agriculture Department will develop three irrigation projects in the Matara district to facilitate paddy cultivators at cost of over Rs 12 million, Provincial Minister Wijeya S Weerasinghe said. The irrigation schemes selected for the project are Haliela irrigation scheme, Koskoratuwa irrigation cannal and Pitakatuwana Wadugoda scheme in …
Even as the Uttarakhand floods brought to the fore debate over the strength of dams, there are over 4,500 such structures in the country which are operating without an 'emergency action plan'. This renders a huge area and property vulnerable to cascading effects of dam failure. The Central Water Commission …
240-MW project on Jhelum to provide 12% free electricity to state The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has added another feather to its cap as the Uri-II hydroelectric project is ready for use and will be commissioned within a couple of months. The testing and checking of the power project …
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has asked for a detailed report on the present status of the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Project from the Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami, Aware of the present stalemate over the prestigious National Hydro Power Project, the PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi told …
Bimolangshu Roy Foundation, named after the late MLA of Silchar, has raised question about the construction of Barak Dam, also known as Tipaimukh Multipurpose Dam Project, against the backdrop of Himalayan Tsunami in Uttarakhand. Briefing media–persons today, Dr Rajdeep Roy, son of Bimolangshu Roy, managing trustee and State spokesperson of …
Nearly a dozen villages face risk of flood after a dam collapsed in Panna district on Sunday night. A dam constructed on Galko river in Bhitari village under Pawai tehsil of the district collapsed in the night, said sources. Tehsildar Gannaur B M Shukla said, "Prior to the collapse, a …
Muck generated by hundreds of hydro power projects in Himachal Pradesh is being dumped along river beds, which has disturbed the natural course of major rivers in the state. With large scale construction of houses and hotels along the banks of major rivers, especially Satluj, Beas and Parbati, even a …
Seek extension of deadline for Omkareshwar evacuation Around a thousand Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists staged a protest in front of the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) here on Monday, against the delay in rehabilitation of evictees of five dams. More than 200 policemen in riot gear manned barricades from …
Cost Temporarily Reduced To Get Faster Approvals New evidence on the irregularities in the controversial Kondhane dam in Raigad reveals that it was hurriedly commenced without a proper design. Instead of drawing up the general layout and design of the project based on the site’s needs, the Konkan Irrigation Development …
– In a bid to end the long-standing stalemate concerning the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP), National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has started pursuing the Ministry of Water Resources to expedite the constitution of a Reservoir Regulation Committee for this hydel project, said a recent report of the www.energylineindia.com. …
The huge protest in the name of the Narmada Jeevan Adhikar satyagraha and Upwaas launched yesterday by the oustees of the Maheshwar, Maan and Upper Beda dams at Bhopal yesterday, enters its second day today, with the oustees are demonstrating will their full vigor and strength, demanding that the oustees …
Dams are being built in different sizes depending on the requirements and the height permissible at the particular site. The higher a dam, the larger the concerns for undesirable impacts that have to be mitigated and the assurance that has to be given to everyone that the dam is not …
Outsees of various projects on Narmada formed a human chain and took out a rally from Neelam Park, to Budhwara and Yadgar-e-Shahjehani Park, on Sunday. A large number of oustees from Omkareshwar, Maheshwar and Indira Sagar dams and others participated in this. Demanding relief and rehabilitation, a large number of …
Warning comes after the approval by a sub group of the Narmada Control authority to a proposal to raise height of the dam from 122 meters to 138.68 meters Medha Patkar has warned of a situation similar to Uttarakhand in the Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh if the height of …
Based on data from the four minor irrigation censuses conducted by the Ministry of Water Resources between 1986-87 and 2006-07, this paper points out that India's groundwater sector has slowed down since 2000-01, most markedly in eastern India. It examines the reasons for this and also looks into how farmers …
The Union Power Ministry is likely to send a high–level team to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to assess the ground realities over the 2000–MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project. The team, according to sources, would make a final review of the present situation that had cropped up following the continuous agitation …
Two years after the government requested Japan for their assistance to carry out a detailed design and rehabilitation of about three kilometres of the Taklai irrigation system in Sarpang, a grant agreement of Nu 630M was signed between the chief representative of JICA Bhutan office and Gross National Happiness Commission …
As the fragility of the Himalayan range lies exposed by the devastating floods in Uttarakhand, it has imparted more weight to the on-going movement in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh against the numerous mega hydel projects that coming up in a sensitive zone that is considered not very stable from the …
The state government seems to have taken a lesson from the Uttarakhand disaster. With the ensuing panchayat polls, the state irrigation department has formed a task force to keep an eye on the river dams in Bengal so that precautionary measures can be taken in advance if at all a …
Small hydro power projects totalling 6,000 Mw in Ganga river basin in Uttarakhand have been affected by Chaturvedi panel proposals Following the declaration of a 130-km stretch of the Bhagirarthi River Valley between Gomukh and Uttarkashi as an eco-sensitive zone by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in December …
