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Numerous power projects vulnerable to disaster: NGOs
Shimla, Feb 9 (UNI) In the aftermath of Uttarakhand flood of Feb 7, a number of civil rights groups and environmental NGOs are posing hard questions to the state authorities over its relentless settings of new power project alleging that most of them are prone to natural disasters.
13 organisations in the state said in a collective statement issued today that many operational, as well as planned hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh, are located in areas highly vulnerable to disasters such as landslides and floods,
“Most of the projects that are to come up in Himachal are planned in the greater and trans-Himalayan regions which are ecologically fragile and vulnerable to climatic changes. These projects are proposed in the upper Sutlej valley in Kinnaur and Spiti and the Chandrabhaga or Chenab basin in Lahaul, where tribal communities are resisting them tooth and nail. These are also geologically unstable terrains prone to ea
Himachal Pradesh: Remove ‘unjust’ criteria for contesting PRI polls, various groups demand
The groups have alleged that people from several marginalised communities in the state have been unjustly declared encroachers of forest or government land due to incomplete implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. December 22, 2020 10:26:37 pm
A peaceful transfer of power would be a milestone for Niger, which has experienced four coups since gaining independence from France in 1960.
Fourteen organisations and individuals in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday jointly demanded the withdrawal of an eligibility condition, which bars anyone who has encroached on government land from contesting the upcoming panchayat elections in the state.