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 […]
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 […]