Hydropower

MoEF accepts Kerala's recommendations on Western Ghats

If you try to map where indigenous people live and where abundant biodiversity exists, you will notice a big overlap. It might seem like coincidence, but it isn't. Indigenous people have long shared and declared a strong connection to their traditional landscapes. They have had methods to protect, preserve and live harmoniously with nature.

Northeast India has been in turmoil over the last two decades or so because of unbridled hydropower development in the region. This article is an effort to understand the extent of hydropower development in the region, the multi-faceted and multi layered conflicts unleashed by this development and also explore ways of engaging with them. It is organised around three broad sections:

CWC recommends scrapping of 15 dams planned across Siang

No sale of packaged drinking water without BIS mark: FSSAI

Plans to create power corridors for each river basin on its way

GSI report suggests channeling Mandakini river

Improved sanitation can reduce diarrhoea cases by 47%: World Bank

Corporates like Tata Steel, Essel Mining violate green laws in Odisha

Hydropower is considered as 'green' power and the Sikkim Government's policy has been to synchronize development imperatives with conscious efforts on environment sustainability. This paper presents the results of a survey carried out among communities living along a 54-km long project affected stretch of the Teesta river.