Uma Bharati objects to nod for dams on Ganga tributaries
January 19, 2016  11:50
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Despite written objections from  Union water resources and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharati, the Union environment ministry has done a volte face and conditionally allowed five new dams on tributaries of the Ganga in the Uttarakhand hills.

In doing so, the environment ministry cited a 1916 agreement between the then British rulers, six kings, members of the Hindu Sabha and Madan Mohan Malviya, and an expert body report, which is still under consideration of an inter-ministerial group of power, water resources and environment ministries.

The environment ministry has also taken a policy decision on how much minimum water should be enough to flow in the Ganga basin, which Bharati has opposed saying it is against the common position that was arrived at within the government. Read more
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