The Centre’s proposal to build a mega dam in Arunachal Pradesh makes even hydropower companies wary

The 10,000-megawatt project on the Siang river would ‘submerge the district headquarters of Upper Siang district’.

Arunabh Saikia

· Oct 18, 2017 · 09:00 am

Ahead of Modi’s visit, villagers protest as Sardar Sarovar Dam project submerges their homes

Activist Medha Patkar’s Narmada Bachao Andolan, which led the ‘Jal Satyagaraha’ agitation, claimed that people continued to stay in their flooded houses.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 16, 2017 · 10:23 am

Uttarakhand is building a dam over an area larger than Chandigarh – and people are protesting

The proposed India-Nepal 5,040 MW Pancheshwar project aims to produce more power than all existing dams in the state.

Hridayesh Joshi

· Aug 26, 2017 · 09:00 am

Damned if you do: As history is repeated on Narmada, those displaced in 1990 serve as a warning

Those who lost their homes and land to the Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh 27 years ago still do not have roads or electricity in their new villages.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Aug 03, 2017 · 09:00 am

Plan to revive Jharkhand dam with bloody past poses threat to people, wildlife

Several villages and parts of a tiger reserve can be submerged by the irrigation project.

Alok Gupta

· Jul 09, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Lake related to Sardar Patel statue project has narrow escape in green tribunal hearing

The petition against one of the water bodies that forms part of the statue project was filed beyond the tribunal's six month statute of limitations.

Mridula Chari

· Sep 04, 2015 · 11:30 am