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Behind hydel project washed away, a troubled trail to accident in 2011 -Jay Mazoomdaar

-The Indian Express

“Imagine the odds of a single, dislodged boulder killing him while nobody standing around received a scratch. In hindsight, was it just a freak incident or an early warning? Today, so many are feared dead and everything has been washed away,” says Kolkata-based realtor Kamal Surana.

On Independence Day in 2011, Rakesh Mehra, the owner of Ludhiana-based Rajit Paints Group, drove up to Chamoli in Uttarakhand to inaugurate the trial run of a unit of his mini-hydel project on Rishi Ganga river adjacent to the Nandadevi biosphere reserve. At the project site, a boulder slid overhead and fell on him.

“Imagine the odds of a single, dislodged boulder killing him while nobody standing around received a scratch. In hindsight, was it just a freak incident or an early warning? Today, so many are feared dead and everything has been washed away,” says Kolkata-based realtor Kamal Surana who had sold the power project to Mehra in 2006.

Between the 2011 boulder slide that killed Mehra and the 2021 glacier burst that buried the entire project along with several workers, the Rishi Ganga mini-hydel plant suffered severe damage in the floods of June 2013 and a cloud burst at the site in August 2016.

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