Order of National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamlesh Roj Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 21/01/2025. The issue raised in the application are protection of historical Hingonia Dam from the encroachment from the local residence violating the environmental norms and damaging the area …
A team of officials from Sikkim’s East District Administration and the NHPC has found that 16 houses downstream of the Teesta Stage-V hydel project in Jang village in Lower Rakdong Tintek are at high risk. The team under SDM Gangtok, Karma Lodey Lepcha, inspected the site on Tuesday, according to …
Federal Minister for KashmirAffairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, Ch Muhammad Barjees Tahir on Thursday constituted a committee to make recommendation for early land requisition for Diamer Bhasha Dam. The committee comprises Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan, Secretary Water and Power and chairman, WAPDA. This committee will come up with its recommendations within 15 days. …
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was supposed to periodically evaluate its energy assistance, but avoided such scrutiny (as it is standard practice in the hydropower sector). In an unusual step, the government's Auditor General Office carried out an in-depth assessment of the assistance, which it submitted to parliament on …
Security analysts in London and Baghdad say control of rivers and dams has become a major tactical weapon for Isis The outcome of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts may rest on who controls the region’s dwindling water supplies, say security analysts in London and Baghdad. Rivers, canals, dams, sewage and …
With the monsoon playing truant this year due to various factors, Kerala might face serious problems on the agriculture, environmental and health fronts, say experts. The factors include El Nino, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific, and the anti-cyclonic circulation over the Western Ghats …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Antarsingh Patel & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 03/07/2014 regarding Maheshwar 400 MW Hydro 3 Power Project constructed over Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. Previous Orders
The Kerala government on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of the May 7 verdict quashing the law enacted by the State to prevent Tamil Nadu from raising the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam from 136 ft to 142 ft. In its review petition filed through counsel …
The project will be delayed by at least 18 months from its initial completion deadline Hydropower: With dam excavation works beginning two weeks ago, almost a year after the slide last year, the commissioning of Punatsangchu hydroelectric project I is now pushed until May 2018. With the project’s deadline moved …
The water sector projects were released more than Rs. 31 billion during first ten months of this year to ensure their timely implementation. This amount was utilized out of total allocated budget of Rs. 57.8 billion for projects including substantial completion (phase-I) of Kachhi Canal in Balochistan and Rainee Canal …
Quick Thinking Of A Plan In March After IMD's Forecast Would Have Saved More Water The Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) delay in deciding about a water cut may cost the city heavily if the rain stays put. In March, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) had forecast a deficient monsoon. However, …
SILCHAR: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has asked the people of Barak Valley to oppose the proposed multi-crore Tipaimukh hydroelectric project located at the confluence of the Barak and Tuivai rivers in Manipur, claiming it would do more harm than good to the area and its people. "The proposed 1,500-MW …
CHENNAI: Two major political victories of the present AIADMK government relate to water. By getting the Centre to publish the final award of the Cauvery tribunal in the gazette, the Supreme Court upheld Tamil Nadu's rights over Cauvery. The Cauvery river is not just important for delta farmers. It is …
With shrinking water level in most of the Gujarat dams — coupled with delayed rain — Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Thursday held a high-level meeting and discussed supplying drinking water from Narmada Dam to water-scarce regions in Gujarat. Anandiben also reviewed the availability of water in the State, …
Criticising the Narmada Control Authority’s decision to further raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat when thousands of affected people are yet to be rehabilitated, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar on Wednesday warned the government of an intensified struggle “inside the valley and in law …
Hyderabad: The controversy surrounding the release of Krishna waters between Telangana and AP governments seems to be over for now, with the Krishna River Joint Management Board ordering the release of 6,000 cusecs per day for a week (roughly 3.4 TMC ft) from the Nagarjunasagar dam to the Krishna Delta …
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi Karimnagar MP B. Vinod Kumar has filed two petitions against construction of the controversial Polavaram Dam. Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao, told Deccan Chronicle on Tuesday: “We will not allow inclusion of the seven mandals of Khammam district in Seemandhra. We will also fight over …
What is the basis for raising dam height?’ Even as the official-level Narmada Control Authority (NCA) asserted that all project-affected families facing displacement at the present height of the Narmada dam had been “resettled,” several people still living in the submergence villages arrived here on Tuesday from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra …
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh assembly urged the Centre to take steps to complete the Polavaram project in three years and bring about a legislation replacing the ordinance to transfer to AP all villages that are expected to get submerged in the backwaters of the project. Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu …
Construction of 200 mini dams in Potohar region and establishment of a medical college in Sialkot were among the 10 development schemes approved by the Punjab government on Monday with an estimated cost of Rs7.936 billion. Presided over by Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman Irfan Elahi, the 45th meeting …
