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Power plants in Uttarakand, which were under the scanner earlier have come under scrutiny again following the flash flood in Chamoli
The flash flood that claimed several lives in Chamoli on February 7 has caused Uttarakhand’s hydropower projects to be scrutinised closely.
Uttarakhand has a tricky relationship with electricity. With a landscape that’s inhospitable to thermal power grid lines and with people too poor to pay for electricity, micro and mini hydro-electric power projects were seen as the answer. Between the government’s long-standing ‘power for all’ objective, and environmentalists pushing for cleaner, renewable energy, setting up dozens of hydel power plants seemed ideal.