19th March 2014 Him Dhara, Environment Research and Action Collective in collaboration with Jan Jangran evam Vikas Sangathan The Schedule Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 is an act meant to recognise and vest rights of forest dwelling communities over forest land. These rights include the right to continue […]
A meeting on Forest Rights Act (FRA) and forest diversion in the context of the proposed 520 MW Nakthan hydro-electricity project was conducted by Himdhara on December 28, 2013 in Nakthan Village in Parbati Valley. A valley which already houses the giant 800 MW Parbati II HEP is now making way for 520 MW Nakthan […]
Shimla Published on Saturday, 26 October 2013 Environment activists have asked the state government to declare Kinnaur a disaster affected area in view of the destruction caused by heavy rains and snow during the month of June this year. Appalled by the government apathy towards reckless and unplanned development in the tribal district, the […]
Tribune News Service Shimla, March 20 Asserting that reduction in the capacity of the Luhri hydroelectric project from 775 MW to 600 MW is not a solution to environment-related issues, activists have urged the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to carry out impact assessment afresh in view of change in design. In a letter […]
Himdhara, Environment Research and Action Collective along with the Satluj Bachao Jan Sangharsh Samiti have raised serious issues with the random change in the capacity of the 775 MW Luhri Hydro-electric Project. The Ministry of Environment’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on River Valley Projects had directed the SJVN to maintain higher environment releases from Luhri […]
Anand Bodh, TNN | Sep 6, 2012, 05.59AM IST SHIMLA: Residents of 78 villages of Kullu, Mandi and Shimla districts, who are likely to be affected by the construction of 775 MW Luhri hydroelectric project, are up in arms against the project as they fear that construction of 38-km long twin tunnels passing underneath many […]
Satluj Bachao Jan Sangharsh Samiti: ‘No NOC taken by SJVNL under provisions of the Forest Rights Act 2006” ; ‘Strongly oppose the tunnel based project’ The World Bank funded 775 MW Luhri Hydroelectric project on the Satluj river has run into further local opposition in the area as people from three affected Panchayats put a […]
Satluj Bachao jan Sangharsh Samiti, District Mandi organised a peaceful rally today at their tehsil headquarters Karsog today on 28th March 2012. The Sangharsh Samiti submitted a memorandum raising various issues and concerns against the World Bank funded 775 Luhri Hydro-electric Project proposed to be built on the Satluj river, to the President of India, […]
Descriptions of the Sutlej, a glacial river originating from Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet traversing through the Himalayas and Punjab plains in India and meeting the Indus in Pakistan, never fail to boast of its magnificence, speed and depth. Over the last few decades, however, this perception has been challenged, as the Sutlej has been reduced from this transcendent symbol […]