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Dams
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Issue Date: Mar 31, 2012
Myth of power
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
Hydroelectric projects
in Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins
Reservoir of dams
Issue Date: May 15, 2008
Once you reach Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh, you know you have stepped into the shadowy side of "shining" India--the cell phone stops catching signals, the roads are worn out and the electricity supply, erratic. If you drive 40 km out of its district headquarters Roing to Nizam Ghat and then trek for three hours in Mishmi hills, you will reach Pather Camp, a nowhere destination in absolute wilderness. A helipad is the last thing you will expect here. Yet there it stands, a testimony to the importance of this place.
30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2007
Orissa farmers make it clear that water from the Hirakud dam is for irrigation, not industry
Saga of two villages
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2007
Sukhomajri, a village in Haryana's Panchkula district, became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s. Its journey from the depths of poverty to a level of prosperity that made it the first Indian village to pay income tax has been a source of inspiration the world over. What lay behind this incredible story was its success in managing its ecological wealth by creating a powerful and united village institution the Hill Resource Management Society (hrms).
Tipaimukh Dam in Manipur driving a wedge?
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2006
The proposed 164-m-high dam will come up 500 m downstream of the confluence of the Barak and Tuivai rivers. Its reservoir will have a storage capacity of 15,900 million cubic m with a maximum depth of 1,725.5 m.
907 km from parliament
Issue Date: May 15, 2006
Here is a social drama with the most complex of plots.
Short circuit
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2006
STRAIT FORWARD
A 150-year-old dream acquires shape
Truth is more Slppery
Issue Date: May 15, 2005
Once the site of a famous victory of the Gallo tribe over the British, Gerukhamukh village today is the address of the biggest dam ever conceived in India. On the banks of river Sipai in Arunachal Pradesh's (ap ) West Siang district, the village is host to the Subansiri Lower Multipurpose Hydroelectric project (slp).
A dark tunnel
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2004
Since Tehri is in an earthquake-prone region, so the authorities had settled on an earth and rockfill dam and not on a concrete dam.
At the time of the incident, concreting work was going on in T3 to strengthen the tunnel. In the ILO, workers were involved in digging and excavating activities (see: Buried alive).
