[Technology India]: Tehri, Oct.26 : As the Tehri Hydro Power project enters its final phase, there is an atmosphere of discontent over lack of proper rehabilitation for the people displaced from the area. So much so, that they have now threatened to stall the final…
Read more »[India News]: Dehradun, Oct 24 : Work at the Tehri hydroelectric project has been stalled as villagers, unhappy with their rehabilitation package, refuse evacuation. While most of old Tehri has already been submerged, a few pockets still remain inhabited and their closure is absolutely essential…
Read more »[India News]: Agar (Uttaranchal), Oct. 23 : Villagers living near a controversial dam are on hunger strike protesting the high tension power lines which pass over their houses and fields. The 800 kilo watt wires are to transmit power to northern Indian towns after the…
Read more »[India News]: Aagar Village (Uttaranchal), Oct. 9 : The villages falling along the route of laying high-tension election lines to be laid between Rishikesh and Tehri town demand for a relocation fearing risk on their lives while living under these high power grids. The first…
Read more »## Urgent Action ## Please write to the UEPPCB to voice your concerns over the brazen attempts to violate the Environmental Impact Assessment process. EIA/PP/UA/04-01 7th September, 2004 To Dr Vibha Puri Das, IAS, Chairman, Uttaranchal Environmental Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB), Uttaranchal Secretariat,…
Read more »Photos and text by Rajiv Nayan Bahuguna and Harsh Dobhal In the midst of collapsed houses, corrugated surfaces, tangled wires and heaps of mud, loudspeakers from a dilapidated mosque blare out afternoon azaan. And as we enter the mosque, we meet 5-6 Muslim youth, all…
Read more »TEHRI (UTTARANCHAL), AUG 3 (PTI) At least 17 workers of a private company were buried alive and 11 injured when a portion of an underground tunnel of Tehri hydel project caved in after heavy lanslides in the area. Nearly 50 to 60 workers, mostly laborers…
Read more »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 »Public Hearings on Tehri Dam Rehabilitation issue 18-19 and 25-26 Feb. 2004 The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) has appointed a Citizen’s Commission to examine the veracity of the government’s claims, primarily by holding a series of public hearings (jan sunwais) in…
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