Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
this book could not have come at a more opportune time when the Narmada and Sardar Sarovar debate is high on the priority list of the nation and the general issue of development versus displacement is nowhere near being resolved or even reaching a consensus. From the mid 1980s the …
Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna's fast, undertaken to highlight the dangers of the Tehri dam project, has lasted for more than 40 days. This is the fourth fast by the 72-year-old Chipko movement leader. The last time when the environmentalist embarked upon a 72-day fast, the then prime minister H D …
the Hanumantha Rao Committee report, looking into the safety, environmental and rehabilitation aspects of the controversial Tehri Dam project, will be made public after it is presented to Prime Minister I K Gujral. Hanumantha Rao, former member of the planning commission and the chairman of the committee has said that …
The National Environmental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and local Indian tribes who seem destined to lose their indigenous land to the project. The electric utility Endesa's environmental impact …
The us $4 billion Xiaolangdi dam on the Yellow River is the other side of the coin of China's water conservation efforts. The massive dam is coming up on the Yangtze Kiang in the Henan province south of Beijing. The contribution of the dam - to be completed on June …
Pakistan North West Frontier Province (NWFP) minister for irrigation, Bashir Bilour said in Peshawar recently that the construction of the Kalabagh dam could not be allowed at any cost as it was a potential hazard to four of the most cultivated districts of NWFP. Elaborating, the minister said that the …
The brouhaha over the Bakun hydroelectric project in Malaysia continues. Recently, the Bakun Region People's Committee (BRPC) met to discuss the various issues which affected the people in connection with implementation of the project. The committee called upon the government to "seriously reconsider and/or review its decision to implement the …
the Ibaloi tribals of northern Philippines are resisting a mega dam yet again. The San Roque multipurpose dam is projected to be one of the biggest in Southeast Asia, having a capacity of 345 mw. The dam, to be built on the lower Agno river at San Roque will destroy …
Damn this chicanery. Prime Minister Narasimha Rao has firmly rejected the demand by opponents of the Tehri dam for an independent review of the controversial project. With a media anaesthetised by the fact that he is really into his 4th year of governance, against all expert punditry that he would …
IT is something of a paradox: no one seems to doubt the apparent merits of Nepal's 402 megawatt (mw) Arun III hydroelectric project, yet the scheme has become fraught with controversy. Almost invariably, the first comment in reply to any reference to the venture is: "Well, Arun III is a …
• Over 60 per cent of the catchment area of the Arun river falls in Tibet; little is known about the hydrological behaviour of the river in this part. • inadequate study of the discharge pattern of the Arun river. critics say that the data collected does not go back …
"India would need power by the time Arun III dam stal1$; producing electricity," said Nepal's Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikary in response to a question by Down To Earth during his visit to New Delhi in April. Although the viability of the World Bank-sponsored project hinges on India's purchase of …
LOCATION On the Arun river in Sankhuwasabha district,about 200 km east of Kathmandu TOTAL POTENTIAL OF THE ARUN BASIN 1,045 mw PRE-FEASIBlLITY STUDY March 1985 FEASIBILITY STUDY June 1987 DETAILED ENGINEERING STUDY December 1992 TARGET COMMISSIONING DATE April 1, 2001 TOTAL POWER GENERATION 201 mw (Phase I), 201 mw (Phase …
On January 16, 1994, 2 human rights activists, Gopal Siwakoti and Rajesh Gautam filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court under Article 16 of the Constitution which recognises the right to information as fundamental. Siwakoti and Gautam went to court with the complaint that they were denied access …
The grandiose Bakun dam project (Down To Earth, Vol 3, No 4) in Borneo is once again in the thick of a mess of its own making. In late April, the Malaysian government's department of environment approved the first of the 3 parts of the dam's detailed environment impact assessment …
