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		The Tehri Garhwal Valley is threatened by the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam, which will be floating these wonderful valleys, where since thousand and thousand years, generations after generations, the Indians cultivate their fields in terrace.
		The Tehri Garhwal Valley of India is in peril.
		Now you see the foundation of the dam and the villagers are unsecured because every day dynamites explose and fragilise the mountains and the old houses.
	www.rhoenline.de /jerome/story_valley.html (1002 words)

	Young Uttaranchal - Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia : history
		The beautiful Tehri Garhwal was once the centre place of ecomomic activities and politics during the time of the King Of Garhwal.
		Tehri's immediate neighbouring district are Dehradun, Pauri, Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Rudraprayag.
		The headqurter of tehri is situated in New Tehri?
	younguttaranchal.com /encyclopedia/tiki-index.php?page=history (2215 words)

	"GANGA" is not for sale / Suez - Degrémont and the Privatization of Ganga Water - by Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri, Kunwar Jalees - Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine
		Tehri, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Garhwal on the banks of the Ganga in the Himalayas, is in the process of being submerged as the tunnels of the controversial Tehri Dam are being closed.
		The Tehri Dam disaster is a microcosm of a violent process which in the name of development, displaces sustainable communities and destroys their sustainable lifestyles, converting them into environmental refugees who are forced to migrate to large cities and urban settlements.
		Tehri's main town is located uncomfortably close to the swelling waters, which have already submerged parts of the town.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /global/vshiva2.html (7272 words)

	UK Social Movements
		The sleepy town of Tehri town on the banks of the Bhagirathi river, around which the controversial 2,400 MW Tehri dam is being constructed, is likely to be vacated by the coming winter.
		Mr Manvendra Shah, former MP from Tehri, has urged the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Kalyan Singh, to immediately intervene and halt the shifting of educational institutions from Old Tehri to New Tehri till suitable alternative arrangements were made for children of the nearby villages.
		The environmentalists argued that the dam was being built in a quake-prone area after the displacement of thousands of hill people from the Tehri town.
	www.bostonglobalaction.net /UK/archive/tehri.html (7008 words)

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		But if the tragedy that struck the Tehri dam, located in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttaranchal, at 10-35 p.m.
		THE votaries of the mammoth 2,400 MW Tehri hydroelectric project may have felt victorious when the Supreme Court removed all legal hurdles before the construction of the dam in September 2003.
		A view of the 2,400 MW Tehri hydel project with the vertical shaft in the foreground, where the landmass caved in.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040827003003300.htm&date=fl2117/&prd=fline& (993 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		The BJP government in Uttaranchal experienced another jolt yesterday as a dissident legislator from Tehri Garhwal, Mr Lakhe Ram Joshi, renounced his privileges over the issue of the state government’s failure to provide adequate rehabilitation to the Tehri Dam oustees before the reservoir is filled.
		The Tehri Hydro-electric Development Corporation officials, when contacted, maintained that since tunnels 1 and 2 at a height of 632 m would remain open in any case, there was no ground in talking about the holy river being blocked by the dam.
		Agitated over the Centre and the state government’s inability to meet the demands of the Tehri Dam oustees, he said the decision to vacate the state guest house (MLA hostel) was taken to draw the attention of the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, on the issue.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010331/nation.htm (4661 words)

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