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 …
Causing a setback to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the MP High Court (Jabalpur bench) has allowed the Maheshwar Hydro Electric project to carry out its ongoing construction and rehabilitation works provided that none of 61 villages which are likely to face submergence partially or completely, face submergence during the course …
Indore, March 22: The fate of Indore municipal corporation's most ambitious water project Narmada phase III seems to have run into rough weather with the Narmada Bachao Andolan throwing a dampener on the R&R; work of 440 mw Maheshwar project. Execution of Narmada phase III through which additional 360 MLD …
People affected by the Maheshwar dam taking out a rally in Mandleshwar on Sunday to protest against the Maheshwar Project. BHOPAL: A large number of people affected by the Maheshwar dam joined a protest march at Mandleshwar on Sunday. Farmers, labourers and representatives of those displaced by the Omkareshwar, Indira …
The establishment wants to enshrine Baba Amte so that it can ignore his message, says ANIL SADGOPAL IT WAS in January 1998 that more than 25,000 peasants, fishermen and boatmen carried out a satyagraha under the banner of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) at the Maheshwar dam site, a hydel …
THE last couple of decades have witnessed intense resistance movements challenging large-scale displacement caused, among others, by mines, dams, national parks and sanctuaries, bomb and missile-testing ranges, industry and urban expansion. Since 1986, thousands of affected people have also united to struggle against the mammoth displacement being caused by construction …
As approval for a crucial increase in the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam is awaited, there is concern about whether Maharashtra will complete the resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected people in time. There are also doubts whether the State will, ultimately, benefit in any way from the project. …
The Maheshwar hydroelectric project on Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh has suffered another setback. The Portuguese government has refused to become a guarantor for a loan of Rs 200 crore being given to the project. The refusal means that Asia Brown Boveri (abb), a multinational company, will not be able …
the 400 mw Maheshwar hydel dam project in the Khargaon district of Madhya Pradesh has run into trouble as the two German companies, VEW Energie and Bayernwerk, have withdrawn from the project. The companies were slated to acquire 49 per cent of the equity in the Rs 1,569-crore Maheshwar project, …
