A photo essay published in Live Mint by Manshi Asher and Sumit Mahar members of Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective Imtiaz Ali’s 2014 film Highway, shot in states like Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh (HP), showed the lead pair of Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt taking National Highway 5, the earlier NH 22, making their […]
The Himdhara Team put together a photo exhibition for the India River’s Week 2014 titled ‘Disappearing Lifelines of India’s Hydro State’. The exhibition highlights the impacts of operations, under-construction and planned Hydro projects in the five river basins of Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh is India’s largest hydropower producing state and has a planned potential of […]
A Photo Essay on the impacts of blasting and tunneling for hydroprojects (Photos by Sumit Mahar) Tunneling for hydropower project using the blasting technique can be compared to mining or quarrying. It has a series of direct and indirect impacts which have already been documented. Among the most serious impacts of tunneling that are likely to […]
http://vimeo.com/92342629 The Gaddi women of Holi Panchayat have been protesting against the re-alignment of the tunnel of GMR’s 180 MW Hydropower Project since the past 2 years. They have been demanding that the tunnel be shifted from the highly forested and populated left bank to the right bank of the Ravi river as planned. The […]
This photo feature documents some of the dams and hydroelectric projects on the Beas river and the kind of destruction these have caused. The Beas river with a length of 470 kms, flows from Rohtang in Manali to meet the Satluj river in Punjab has an indentified hydropower potential of close to 6000 MW. To […]
मुआयना रिपोर्ट: पांवटा साहिब औद्योगिक क्षेत्र फैक्ट्री के बारे में – कंसल बिल्डिंग सोल्युशन (प) लिमिटेड, कुण्डियों अजीवाला, तहसील पांवटा साहिब, जिला सिरमौर, हिमाचल प्रदेश में बाता नदी व अबी नदी, चौड़ी खाल (बरसाती नाले) के किनारे आटोक्लेवड सेलुलर कांक्रिट ब्लाक बनाने की फैक्ट्री का काम चल रहा है। फैक्ट्री के लिये आवंटित 54-21 बिघा […]
Sparse vegetation and loose soils are characteristic of upper Kinnaur and Spiti regions of the Satluj valley. The area is increasingly sensitive to climatic changes and human interventions. Extreme rains that devastated Uttarakhand this June left its imprint on neighbouring Himachal Pradesh as well. This photo feature documents the impact of the June calamity in […]