Shimla, April 22 (IANS) Green activists have long protested the hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been gobbling up forests and drying up water channels. Now a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) too backs the claims of the greens. Compensatory afforestation was highly deficient, as 58 percent of the 12 surveyed […]
Fearing drying up of traditional water sources and depletion of flora and fauna due to massive construction of hydropower projects, people of over two dozen villages of the remote Lahaul Valley on Tuesday staged a massive protest in this district headquarters town. They said the protests were planned to apprise the authorities on World Environment […]
PRESS RELEASE: 30th January 2012 ‘LEAVE THE CHENAB ALONE’ LAHAUL RESIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS APPEAL; WRITE TO MOEF OBJECTING TO STATE GOVERNMENT’s STATEMENT OF EXEMPTING THE BASIN FROM CUMULATIVE IMPACT STUDIES The Jispa-Darcha Bachao Sangarsh Samiti along with several other representatives of grasroots organisations from Lahaul have written a strongly worded letter to the Union Ministry […]