Activists and many residents blame a hydel project for the growing frequency of landslides in some Uttarakhand villages. THE nearly 3,500 residents of Bhatwadi village along the Uttarkashi-Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand saw their world come crashing down around them on the night of August 12/13. A massive landslide that hit the village formed cracks up to five metres wide on the highway and these crept up the hills to over 100...
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Meena Gupta panel visits Posco captive port site
The Meena Gupta Committee formed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to look into forest rights and other issues involving Posco project, today visited the Jatadhari River mouth, site of the project’s proposed captive port, in its second trip to the state in less than one month. Posco proposed to set up a captive port at Jatadhari River mouth, 10 km from Paradip port, on 500 acres of...
More »Interlinking of Rivers would increase India's arable land
Interlinking of Rivers has the potential to increase India's arable land by 35 million hectares (mha), Minister of State for Water Resources Vincent H. Pala said Tuesday. Harvesting flood waters to recharge of ground water would increase the availability by about 36 million cubic metres, he added. Speaking at the conference on water organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, Pala said: 'India has to create an irrigation potential of more...
More »North India reels under floods, toll mounts to 93
A vast swath of land in north India battled swirling flood water as the toll in heavy rains in the region rose to 93 with reports of more deaths from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Uttar Pradesh accounted for nine more deaths, while 67 persons lost their lives in the incessant rains during the past few days. Thousands others have been rendered homeless in the hill state. In Uttar Pradesh, three persons died...
More »Flash flood situation at many places in Punjab, Haryana
Several places in Punjab and Haryana face flash flood situation in the wake of heavy downpour, which also resulted in "low flood" conditions in some areas along Yamuna and Sutlej Rivers in the two states. The in-flow at Yamuna River near Hathni Kund barrage in Yamunanagar district of Haryana was at 1.3 lakh cusecs of water, officials said, adding it was considered to be a "low flood" condition. Some 60 villages...
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