OLD TEHRI (UTTARANCHAL), JUL 31 (PTI) Most of the people, including environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, have been evacuated from this marooned town raising hope for an early settlement of the vexed rehabilitation process as well as the commissioning of the first phase of the 2400 MW…
Read more »TEHRI, JULY 29 (PTI) More than 65 per cent of old Tehri town was today inundated after the waters of Bhagirathi river reservoir of the 2400 mw Tehri hydel project rose sharply even as tension gripped the area with a handful of people refusing to…
Read more »Raju Gusain Garhwal Post, May 23, 2004 DEHRADUN: PAHAR is once again organising the ‘Askot Arakot Abhiyan-2004’ from 25 May to 8 July. PAHAR is a leading research organisation of Uttaranchal based in Nainital. Starting from Askot (Pithoragarh) bordering Nepal, the expedition will conclude at…
Read more »NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 15: A day after 30-year-old Gambhir Singh Kathait reportedly made a self-immolation bid in Tehri in north Uttaranchal, people accompanying him to Delhi are calling the incident an “accident”. Having suffered 45 per cent burns, he was said to be in a…
Read more »The multi-crore trade in illegal timber is being challenged by one man whose main objective is to save the hills of Uttaranchal from being denuded in the name of development India Today, February 2, 2004 Jaya Prakash Dabral, a former corporate executive turned social…
Read more »By Our Staff Correspondent The Hindu, Saturday, Dec 06, 2003 DEHRA DUN DEC. 5. The Uttaranchal Cabinet has watered down the provisions of the controversial Land Ordinance. Now the Ordinance, to become an Act during the coming Assembly session, will not be applicable to urban…
Read more »The Supreme Court clears the Tehri dam project by a split verdict but insists that rehabilitation of the affected people be completed before further impounding of water at the dam site is carried out. A THREE-JUDGE Bench of the Supreme Court on September 1 held…
Read more »VANDANA SHIVA comments on the ecological and social consequences of the proposed move to privatise the Ganga by a multi-national company. The Hindu, Sunday, Aug 31, 2003 FOR the first time since the construction of the Ganga Canal in 1847, water has stopped flowing in…
Read more »Times of India 25 Nov, 2002 NEW DELHI: Dayal Singh Rana, like many of his peers, left home in the Tehri Hills 24 years back and came to the flatlands to try his luck out. Working his way through menial tasks in wayside dhabas and…
Read more »The fading gains of Himalayan conservation Bharat Dogra, June 2002 Rishikesh, June 5 2002, (IPS): The bare slopes where pine forests once thrived is a sure sign that the famous chipko conservation movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which drew world attention to this once…
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