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Performance Audit Report of Hydropower Development Through Private Sector Participation

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has just uploaded the “Performance Audit Report of Hydropower Development Through Private Sector Participation” in full to its website. In what proves to be sober reading, both the dismal state of implementation and complete lack of environmental consideration…

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SC slams Uttarakhand govt & THDC on relief and rehabilitation

New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) The Supreme Court today slammed Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC) and Uttarakhand government for their failure to take adequate rehabilitation measures for the people affected in Bhagirathi river valley with the raising of water level upto 830 meters in Tehri…

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Protests in Uttarakhand against closure of hydel projects

Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun Business Standard, September 13, 2010, 0:20 IST Protests have mounted in Uttarakhand against the closure of major hydel projects with the move likely to create an adverse affect on investment scenario in the hill state. Protests have triggered…

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‘Waterman’ becomes Ganga’s saviour

Pankaj Shah, Times News Network, Sep 5, 2010, 04.31am IST LUCKNOW: First, it was environmentalist GD Agarwal who went on a hunger strike to pressurise the Centre into abandoning a 600 MW Loharinag-Pala hydro-electric power project over the Ganga in Uttarakhand. And now, Magsaysay award…

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Project scrapped, villagers’ miseries remain

Neena Sharma Tribune News Service Dehradun, August 25 Life has become hell for people of eight villages badly affected by the construction of the 13-km tunnel and the scrapping of the Loharinag Pala hydro power project has not brought an end to their miseries, says…

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‘Two million people will be affected by Uttarakhand dams’

Times of India, Aug 16, 2010 Suresh Bhai, a Dalit social and environment activist, is the founder and chairperson of Himalya Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Uttarkashi. He is involved with various campaigns that demand a reconsideration of the plan to build over 300 hydel projects in…

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Protests resume at Loharinag Pala

Ravleen Kaur Down to Earth, Aug 15, 2010 AN INDEFINITE fast and protests are back at Loharinag Pala dam site on the Bhagirathi river, a key tributary of the Ganga in Uttarakhand, as the government decided to revive a 600 MW hydroelectric project on the…

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Srinagar power project capacity to be raised: UP minister

Tribune News Service, Haridwar, August 2 Though hydroelectric projects in Uttarakhand have evoked protests for their negative impact on the ecology, neighbouring Uttar Pradesh government, which has control over several projects in Uttarakhand, seems to be interested in building more such projects to fulfil its…

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How India’s Success Is Killing Its Holy River

By Jyoti Thottam / Pipola Time, Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 In a pine-scented Himalayan valley, Sushila Devi is a reluctant soldier in India’s new war over water. Her village, Pipola, sits just southeast of the Tehri Dam, which bestrides one of the precursors of the…

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Over 100 hydro projects in Uttarakhand blocked

Times of India Nitin Sethi, TNN, Jul 16, 2010 NEW DELHI: More than 100 hydroelectric projects planned by the Uttarakhand government are in jeopardy. The Union environment and forests ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has decided not to give forest clearance to any of the…

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