Film | Mucking Up Mountain Lives पहाड़ी जीवन दबाया मलबे में

Yet another hydropower project disaster devastated property, lands and livelihoods in Himachal Pradesh. This time in a 25 MW hydropower project executed by the Megha engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), whose penstock/tunnel failure caused seepages which turned to a flash flood and landslide devastating farmlands and property in Multhan village and market in the Chhota Bhangal […]

Disasters in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand point to flawed development model

Indigenous communities in the two ecologically fragile Himalayan States are routinely excluded from this narrative that fuels reckless growth. Article written by Manshi Asher published on 21/09/23 in Frontline The monsoon of 1999 is etched vividly in my memory. At 23, shortly after finishing my master’s, I was to join a project that worked on […]

Press Note: March 14, 2023 | Let our rivers flow free! Youth groups from the Himalayas raise demand on International Campaign Day for Rivers.

हिन्दी के लिये नीचे स्क्रोल करें। From the East to the West Himalayas, the Brahmaputra, Ganga, and Indus River basins together are recognized as the water towers of Asia. Our civilizations were born at the banks of these Himalayan Rivers. Our ancestors have prayed to these rivers which have been the source of our spiritual […]

हिमालय के लिए घातक जल विद्युत् परियोजनाओं के अंधाधुंध निर्माण और इनमें बरती लापरवाही का उठाया मुद्दा : विश्व बैंक तथा ऊर्जा निदाशालय हिमाचल को लिखे ज्ञापन के कुछ अंश👇

हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करेंWhy we refused to attend the World Bank ‘Stakeholder consultation’ for proposed 200 million dollar ‘Himachal Pradesh Power Sector Development Program’! Excerpts of letter to World Bank and Directorate of Energy, HP calling out blatant and willful negligence of hazardous hydropower dams in Himachal The World Bank in a bid […]

A Year Since Chamoli Disaster, Himachal’s Dam-Building Spree Unabated

Article Manshi Asher published on 07/02/22 in The Wire Science Last year on this day, bone-chilling images emerged from a tragic disaster in the Himalaya. A group of workers desperate to save their lives were huddled under the roof of the Tapovan Dam barrage in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, even as a deluge roared over them. Someone […]

PRESS NOTE: 15th January 2022 | Yet another Tunnel testing hazard at a hydropower site in Himachal; Seepages from 180 MW Bajoli-Holi Power Project at Jharauta village in tribal area Bharmour of Chamba in late December triggers landslides, damage to homes; Villagers had warned of poor geology during project planning: Fact-finding report

हिन्दी प्रेस नोट के लिए नीचे स्क्रॉल करें! PRESS NOTE: 15th January 2022 | Yet another Tunnel testing hazard at a hydropower site in Himachal; Seepages from 180 MW Bajoli-Holi Power Project at Jharauta village in tribal area Bharmour of Chamba in late December triggers landslides, damage to homes; Villagers had warned of poor geology during project […]

9th Feb 2021 | Public Statement | Uttarakhand Tragedy: ‘Natural disaster’ or ‘Willful Negligence’?

Scroll down for Hindi  We express our grief and utmost anguish for the lives lost in the tragic event that occurred in Chamoli Uttarakhand. We hear that hundreds are missing and several feared dead. We are also aware that there is no clear statement from the government or any other State agency about the exact event […]

हिमालय में जल विद्युत परियोजनाओं के लिए वन हस्तांतरण व संबंधित क्षतिपूरक वनीकरण के दुष्परिणामों का खुलासा करता नया अध्ययन; वनों के दोहन से स्थानीय पर्यावरण और समुदायों को क्षति और वन हस्तांतरण के एवज में किया जा रहा सरकारी पौधारोपण भी असफल।

हिमालयी क्षेत्रों में जल विद्युत विकास को स्वच्छ और अक्षय ऊर्जा के नाम पर बढ़ावा देने की होड़ पिछले दो दशकों से चल रही है। हिमाचल में बड़े पैमाने पर इन पनबिजली परियोजनाओं और संबंधित टावर लाईनों का निर्माण हुआ है और इसके लिए हज़ारों हेक्टेयर वन भूमि का हस्तांतरण भी किया गया है। वन […]