Kharkai Dam

Affidavit filed by the MoEF&CC related to reduction of glacier sizes leading to an increase in moraine-dammed lakes in Himachal Pradesh and Tibet, 22/04/2025

Affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of News item titled "Glacial lakes multiply in Himachal Pradesh and Tibet, posing a threat to lives and infrastructure downstream" appearing in the Hindu, August 11, 2024. The report said that the Ministry of Jal Shakti …

Neighbours agree on panel for river waters

Ranchi, Sept. 28: The Jharkhand and Bengal governments have agreed to set up a joint committee to monitor the release of Subernarekha and Kharkai waters and minimise flood threats. The Bengal government is also ready to pay its share of funds, around Rs 19.5 crore, for the interstate Subernarekha Multipurpose …

Orissa jibe stirs up state water project

A strongly-worded letter from the Orissa chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, to the governor, Syed Sibtey Razi, on inordinate delays plaguing the ambitious Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP), despite the neighbouring state spending a whopping over Rs 545 crore over the last three decades, has activated the Jharkhand administration. The state development …

Tata Steel agrees to pay Rs 40cr water cess

The Subernarekha basin in Jamshedpur A long-standing dispute between the state government and Tata Steel over the cess on water from Subernarekha and Kharkai basin in Jamshedpur seems to have reached an amicable solution, with the steel major agreeing to pay Rs 40 crore. Till August this year, the state …

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