The accentuating water crisis in Shimla, with water being distributed only once in eight days in most localities, points to the failure of Shimla Municipal Corporation and the state government to comprehend the situation and effectively manage the crisis. People are forced to fetch water from the adjoining natural sources …
The accentuating water crisis in Shimla, with water being distributed only once in eight days in most localities, points to the failure of Shimla Municipal Corporation and the state government to comprehend the situation and effectively manage the crisis. People are forced to fetch water from the adjoining natural sources …
The water woes of the state capital and the suburbs may finally be addressed with the World Bank (WB) giving its nod for the taking up of the Rs 643 crore Kol Dam lift water supply scheme to cater to the growing needs of town and suburbs for the next …
Shimla: A team of the World Bank is expected to visit Shimla in the third week of this month in connection with a Rs 643-crore proposal that aims to improve the city's ever-deteriorating water distribution and sewerage systems. A detailed project report, submitted by the state government to draw water …
Awaits Ministry’s nod for formal inauguration The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) commissioned the first two units (200 MW each) of the 800 MW Kol Dam project yesterday after two machines were synchronised with the northern grid successfully. The other two units, of same capacity, would be commissioned soon, NTPC …
Corp chairman to visit today, HP to get 366.48 million unit power each yr After being plagued by cost overrun and a delay of about five years, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is set to commission the 800-MW Kol Dam, its first hydropower project, on the Sutlej river in …
People living along the river issued flood warning While landslides at Urni continue to be a nightmare for people of Kinnaur, the formation of an artificial lake on the Sutlej near Chauling in the district has added to the worries of local people. Following landslides during the past few days, …
It will provide additional water supply of 51 MLD per day The ambitious Kol Dam water augmentation project for the Shimla Municipal Corporation has been given technical approval by the Union Urban Development Ministry and its cost has been further reduced by Rs 60 crore in the revised detailed project …
Centre asks state to submit revised report Taking notice of the misleading data and other glaring deficiencies in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Shimla Water Supply Scheme from the Kol Dam reservoir near Sunni, the Union Ministry of Urban Development has asked the state government to submit a …
Sets up Cabinet sub-committee to take final decision Despite the stand taken by Irrigation and Public Health Minister Vidya Stokes on getting drinking water for Shimla from the Pabbar in Rohru, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said the government could not waste more time in taking the final decision which …
Nod to submergence of cheer pheasant habitat The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has directed the government to initiate action against officials responsible for giving nod to the submergence of the habitat of the endangered cheer pheasant in the Kol Dam water and identify 22 habitats for the …
Even as the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is about to revise the cost of its 800-MW Kol Dam hydro power project, filling is still incomplete and the ponding of water may not be started this year as planned. As a result of the delay in filling and concreting in …
With the water supply shrinking in the city with the arrival of summer, the Himachal Pradesh government is planning to launch over Rs 500 crore scheme to ensure regular supply of water to the people in the state capital. “There is a scheme of Rs 516 crore to uplift the …
Hundreds of oustees affected by the Kol Dam project from the districts of Mandi, Shimla and Solan, besides Bilaspur, held a demonstration in the town today. They carried banners and placards displaying their demands and raised slogans against the Kol Dam management of the NTPC and the district administration. They …
Oustees and the NTPC, which is executing the 800-MW Kol Dam project, are on a collision course. Oustees continued to paralyse work for the eighth consecutive day today. They stuck to their demands of a permanent job for a member of each family or Rs 25 lakh as compensation and …
Sundernagar: KK Ohja, Additional General Manager (AGM), Kol Dam Hydropower project, said with the kind cooperation of the state government and residents living in the vicinity of 800-MW Kol Dam, the project work would be completed by 2013. He said majority of the project works was likely to be completed …
A large quantity of silt that makes its way into the 10,000-hectare Gobind Sagar, the country’s largest fishing pond, every year has spelt doom for fish breeding grounds over of the years. The fish production in the reservoir has nosedived by nearly 50 per cent in the past five years. …
With a vast green cover and 100-km gravity line proving to be a major impediment in the execution of the Pabbar water supply scheme, the government has decided to meet the water requirement of the capital from the Kol Dam in Bilaspur district. The scheme from the Kol Dam, for …
After running four years behind schedule, the 800 MW Kol Dam hydropower project, being executed by the NTPC, will be completed by December 2012. It will be commissioned in 2013 as it requires more than six months to fill the 167-m-high and 12.5-sq-km reservoir. The NTPC has yet to sort …
Sub-watersheds in border areas not to be covered With the Survey of India (SoI) and the Ministry of Defence reluctant to grant permission for the digitisation of restricted maps, the Forest Department has decided to go ahead with the finalisation of integrated catchment area treatment plan for the Sutlej basin …
Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has directed Himachal Pradesh government to include the 800-MW Kol Dam project in the Cumulative Environment Impact Assessment (CEIA) Study, which the ministry had recently ordered for the Sutlej basin. The ministry has also told the state government to undertake an environment impact …
