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Tag: Beas
9th Feb 2021 | Public Statement | Uttarakhand Tragedy: ‘Natural disaster’ or ‘Willful Negligence’?
Scroll down for Hindi We express our grief and utmost anguish for the lives lost in the tragic event that occurred in Chamoli Uttarakhand. We hear that hundreds are missing and several feared dead. We are also aware that there is no clear statement from the government or any other State agency about the exact event […]
The Hidden Cost of Hydropower : Environmental hazards and risks of tunneling, excavation and construction in Run of the River Hydropower Projects in Himachal Pradesh
A Summary Note Even as we are at the end of the fifth decade of celebrating the World Environment Day, globally the environmental crisis continues to worsen. One of the solutions to mitigate the climate crisis and green house gas emissions adopted by countries including India has been shifting to renewable energy sources like Hydropower. […]
Press Note: 13 May 2019 | Lack of safety compliance in Hydro Projects invitation to disasters: Community representatives, activists to authorities
हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें Lack of safety compliance in Hydro Projects invitation to disasters: Community representatives, activists to authorities This Lok Sabha elections both major national parties, the BJP and Congress in their manifestos speak of “Protecting the Himalayas”. However both parties and their candidates remain silent on a grave issue of concern […]
Mapping environmental conflicts in Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a Himalayan state in the North-West of India and is known for its good performance in social and economic development indicators in the country. A state where the government seems to have ‘delivered’ in areas of education, health and other basic services. The region is also celebrated for its landscape- as the […]
A Himalayan Sell Out : Down To Earth
An article published in Down to Earth by Kesang Thakur & Manshi Asher, members of Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective The development juggernaut has gained new momentum with the Narendra Modi led BJP government assuming power. There is a new vigour to steam rolling policies, laws or regulatory mechanisms, seen as a threat or obstacles […]
प्रेस विज्ञाप्ति : 17 दिसम्बर 2014 वायदा खिलाफ़ी के चलते ग्रामिणों ने जल विद्युत परियोजना को चेताया
पालमपुर के नजदीक स्पेडू गांव में बन रहे 4.5 मेगावाट के आवा प्रोजेक्ट के प्रभावितों ने आज प्रोजेक्ट के पावर हाउस साइट में जमा हो कर कम्पनी को उनके मध्य हुये करारनामे की शर्तें न निभाने के चलते चेतावनी दी। ब्यास की सहायक नदी आवा खड्ड पर इस परियोजना को सुभाष प्रोजेक्ट्स द्वारा बनाया जा […]
DISAPPEARING LIFELINES OF INDIA’s HYDRO STATE
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 […]
Beas, a dying free flow Himalayan River – A Photo Essay
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 […]
Run Into The River
Now in a dismantled state, the 4.8 MW Aleo II hydro project, situated between Aleo and Prini village in Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh made it to the news recently, but for wrong reasons. The reservoir of the newly built Aleo II hydro project on the Aleo nallah, a tributary of the Beas river, collapsed […]