Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Uttarakhand HC Licence expired why is floating hotel running?" appearing in the Times of India dated 07.01.2024 dated 12/02/2024. An application was filed suo-motu on the basis of a news report published in Times of India, January …
Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in the Bhagirathi river was monitored for the period of twelve months (September 2004 to August 2005) for assessing the impact of Asia's highest dam, Tehri Dam. Comparative data on diversity of macroinvertebrates revealed that the number of taxa in the downstream stretch, especially close to the …
People living near the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand are in trouble. Villages on the slopes overlooking the reservoir are threatened by increasing landslides and those living downstream, once ousted for the building of the dam and rehabilitated, are losing their new homes to an airport expansion …
TEHRI AGAIN As the old Tehri town drowns in the water impounded by the Tehri dam, some way upstream another hydroelectric power project is making an unwelcome appearance. Work on a hydel project, located on the Bhilangana river, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, is being carried out with heavy protection
Old Tehri town and several villages go under water following a court order to close the diversion canal and dam the Bhagirathi, while the scattered families' demands for compensation are yet to materialise. IT is a grave tragedy that is gradually unfolding in the vast submergence area of the 260-metre …
on november 8, 2005, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (sc) issued notices in a case challenging the closure of the final diversion tunnel of the Tehri dam project, because mandatory conditions have not been met. The sc was hearing a petition filed by N D Jayal and Shekhar …
function illus() { var popurl="image/20040831/26-illus.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=440,height=320,scrollbars=yes") } Disaster struck the Tehri dam site in Uttaranchal at 10:15 pm on August 2. A huge landslide inside the vertical shaft of a tunnel claimed the lives of 29 workers and left about 12 injured. According to Puneet Kansal, district magistrate, Tehri, one …
What do you think is the cause of this accident? The Union power minister has announced the setting up of a technical committee under the chairmanship of M S Reddy. We have ordered a non-technical enquiry to be done by a magistrate. I will let you know exactly what has …
July 29 was a black day for those residents of the old Tehri town who had decided to remain back. At around 2 pm, the water in the lake surrounding the almost empty town rose and entered their homes. The 20 or so families left had to run for their …
About 10 kilometres from old Tehri, as one travels upstream along the Bhagirathi, is Malidewal village, which has more than 300 families. This will be the first large village to be submerged when the reservoir starts to fill up. The villagers have been given land in Pashulok area in the …
The Tehri dam project has always been embroiled in controversies. The initial protests against the dam started in the late 1960s when surveys were conducted at the dam site. An organised movement took shape after the Planning Commission gave its nod to the dam in 1972. In the 1980s and …
Doesn't this incident reopen the whole question on the safety aspects of the dam? This dam project was approved only after detailed discussions and scientific studies. They came to a conclusion that the dam should be constructed. I am not a scientist, you understand. Many committees have been giving contradicting …
1949 Tehri dam conceived 1961 Tehri chosen as a tentative site for the dam 1972 Planning Commission gives its nod to the dam 1978 Actual construction of the dam begins under police protection; Protests gather momentum 1980 Environmental Appraisal Committee appointed by the government, refuses environmental clearance 1986 Diversion tunnels …
It was about 10 pm. I was working in the Intermediate level outlet. Suddenly I felt the earth shake and heard a loud sound. Then a huge cascade of rocks and boulders came upon me. First I could not feel anything but then the pain came. I realised that an …
LANDSLIDE AT PARBATI PROJECT: Twenty workers were trapped inside a tunnel at the Parbati hydroelectric power project in Himachal Pradesh following a landslide on August 7. The landslide, caused by a cloudburst and flash floods, blocked the entrance to the 1.5 kilometre (KM) long tunnel. Most of the workers had …
DAM officials, contractors and technical experts supporting the dam have been quick to brush aside the tunnel collapse as a mere lapse. But nothing related to the Rs 6,000 crore-plus project has simple answers. In its 26th year of construction, the project has been most controversial. Since 1980, at least …
it may well be a flashback to the 1970s for the mountainous village of Kataldi in the Tehri district of Uttaranchal. Just as in the past, the villagers are up in arms about the granting of a mining lease to a private firm. They contend that limestone mining will bring …
following loud protests from various corners against closing of tunnels on the Bhagirathi river, the Tehri dam committee has recommended a comprehensive study to find out if the Ganga holds higher self-purification qualities. The study findings will be out soon. The committee members were unanimous that due to oxygen availability …
The closure of tunnels T3 and T4 comes even as a vast majority of people displaced remain to be rehabilitatedeven as recommendations of the Union government appointed Hanumantha Rao Committee remain to beimplementedeven as the Prime Minister appointed Murli Manohar Joshi committee is yet to submit its report and even …
It is now inevitable that Tehri will be submerged. The 185-year-old Himalayan town's fate was sealed on December 5, 2001, when the gates of two tunnels were shut to terminate the flow of the Bhagirathi river. This major step towards completion of the controversy-ridden Tehri dam also marked the petering …
1949: Dam conceived 1961: Tehri chosen as tentative site 1967 to 1972: Sporadic protests begin 1972: Planning Commission go-ahead 1978: Construction begins under police protection; protests gather momentum 1980: Environmental Appraisal Committee (EAC) refuses clearance 1986: Diversion tunnels start operating; protestors storm dam site and stall work 1990: EAC disallows …
