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	Tour Visit Tehri Dam : Tehri Hydel Project India
		Tehri dam is the main dam of the Tehri Hydel Project, a major power project located near Tehri in the state of Uttaranchal in India.
		The dam's projected capabilities include an power generation capacity of 2400 MW, stabilise irrigation to an area of 6,000 km²; and add another area of 2,700 km²;, and a supply of 270 million gallons of drinking water to industrialized cities in Delhi,Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal.
		The main dam of the project is built near the old Tehri town that lies at the confluence of the rivers Bhagirathi, (one of the major tributary of the river Ganga) and Bhilangana.
	www.gangabeachresort.com /tehridam.html (237 words)

	Tehri dam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Tehri dam lies at the confluence of the rivers (additional info and facts about Bhagirathi) Bhagirathi (a (A branch that flows into the main stream) tributary of the (additional info and facts about Ganga) Ganga) and Bhilangana.
		Apart from environmental concerns regarding the location of large dams in the fragile (A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment) ecosystem of the (additional info and facts about Himalaya) Himalayan foothills, there are also concerns regarding the dam's safety.
		The Tehri dam is located in the Central Himalayan Siesmic Gap, a major (additional info and facts about geologic fault) geologic fault zone.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/tehri_dam.htm (205 words)

	Tehri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tehri lies at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Bhilangna rivers, and is the site of the Tehri dam.
		Tehri was a former princely state of British India, named after its capital; area 4180 sq.
		The town of Tehri has been emptied to make space for the Tehri dam, and the population has been shifted to the town of New Tehri.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tehri (179 words)

	www.agp.org \| India: Tehri Dam
		The advocates raised objections on the conditional clearance given by the ministry of environment to Tehri dam project on 19 July 1990.
		The issue of dam's safety is related with the lives of lakhs of people living in the areas below the dam.
		Dam is a temporary solution; the residents of hills can continuously provide water to the country.
	www.nadir.org /nadir/initiativ/agp/free/dams/tehri_dam.htm (1517 words)

	Rehabilitation of people uprooted from the Tehri dam area: What is the reality?
		As the time taken in the construction of the dam goes on increasing, the whole gamut of the process from uprooting of the persons to their rehabilitation also goes on increasing.
		The families fully affected by Tehri Dam have been shown to be 10,303 in March 2001.
		Compensation in Tehri therefore has to be higher and is not comparable with the type of compensated structures of Narmada region.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Industries-envirn-resettlement/2002/tehri.htm (3681 words)

	UK Social Movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 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.
		The dam, conceived as one of the world's highest, is located in a region where experts say an earthquake with a magnitude of eight on the Richter scale is highly possible.
	www.bostonglobalaction.net /UK/archive/tehri.html (7008 words)

	Tehri Dam a Boon or Curse for India
		Tehri dam is an easy target for terrorists to ruin the economy of India and thereby threaten the national security, promote the growth of poverty, unemployment and violence in this holy land of Buddha, Mahavir and Mahatma Gandhi.
		Oroville dam was considered for earthquake parameters of magnitude 6.5 peak acceleration of 0.6g and frequency of 2.5 hertz while the second dam was considered for a magnitude of 5.7 peak acceleration 0.9g and frequency of 6.5 hertz.
		Since Dr.Nigam is reported to have opposed for 3-D Non-linear Analysis of Tehri dam and for the dambreak analysis and such views are against the standard international norms for dam safety his views must be rejected consequently the report of the group of experts must be considered as a rejection of the Tehri project.
	www.gitam.edu /old/www.gitam.edu/science/envstud/tehri/tehridam.html (3352 words)

	Young Uttaranchal - Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia : history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The beautiful Tehri Garhwal was once the centre place of ecomomic activities and politics during the time of the King Of Garhwal.
		The headqurter of tehri is situated in New Tehri?
		Tehri's immediate neighbouring district are Dehradun, Pauri, Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Rudraprayag.
	younguttaranchal.com /encyclopedia/tiki-index.php?page=history (2215 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lucknow, Aug. 3: Buffeting rain and huge landslides sucked the Tehri dam into further controversy today as 17 labourers were buried alive in a tunnel collapse last night.
		Several workers, mostly from Bihar and Jharkhand, were also feared trapped under the debris of the tunnel of the dam which environmental groups have been saying is dangerous because it is being built in an earthquake-prone part of the Himalayas.
		The dam is part of a massive hydroelectric project expected to produce 24,000 MW of electricity.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040804/asp/nation/story_3580391.asp (385 words)

	Killing the Ganga
		But the Ganga is also being transformed from a river of life to a river of death both by the ecological consequences of damming as illustrated by the ecological risks of Tehri dam, and of diversion, as the disappeared Ganga in Haridwar and Western U.P. is showing.
		The Tehri dam project is located in the outer Himalaya in the Tehri-Garhwal district of Uttaranchal.
		Thus the dam is potentially dangerous for large parts of north-western India, and large areas in the Gangetic plains could be devastated in the event of a mishap.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /shiva_ganga.htm (1608 words)

	ECA Watch: Press Room
		Now, Tehri is slated to become a test case for the export credit agencies with Germany's ECA Hermes currently considering an application for covering the export of equipment to Tehri by the company Voith Siemens Hydro.
		Tehri is a project that not only blatantly violates the key recommendations of the World Commission for Dams (WCD), it even fails to meet the minimal standards set out by the World Bank, who rejected the project some years ago.
		It would indeed be difficult to conceive of a worse project: With a proposed height of 260 meters Tehri is a MEGA dam and it is situated in one of the most earthquake prone regions of the world, atop the Central Himalayan Seismic Gap.
	www.eca-watch.org /press/kits/genoa01/cs_india.html (699 words)

	Trouble in Tehri
		The construction of the dam is expected to result in the formation of a reservoir over 42 square kilometres, fully submerging Tehri town and about 20 villages and partly affecting 74 villages.
		Tunnels 1 and 2 of the Tehri dam.
		The people in Tehri town had been asked to vacate their homes by the end of March when the tunnels were to be closed.
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1901/19010330.htm (1143 words)

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		A view of the 2,400 MW Tehri hydel project with the vertical shaft in the foreground, where the landmass caved in.
		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.
		According to officials from the JP Group of Industries, which is carrying out the construction work of the Tehri project, the landmass apparently came loose because of heavy rain in the region.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040827003003300.htm&date=fl2117/&prd=fline& (993 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| January 2007
		The Tehri dam is a reality, but the promises made to the displaced locals have not been kept.
		The Tehri Dam Project aims to supply an enormous amount of crucially needed resources to increasingly parched and energy-starved areas of North India.
		The dam is constructed at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Bhilangana rivers in Garhwal, and the 855-foot-high edifice – the fifth tallest dam in the world – is intended to hold back a reservoir that extends 45 km into the Bhagirathi Valley and 25 km into the Bhilangana Valley.
	www.himalmag.com /2007/january/photofeature.htm (823 words)

	UK Social Movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At 260 meters height, the Tehri Dam will be one of the highest in the world, and will displace over 100,000 people and flood 27,000 hectares of land.
		Opposition to the dam over its severe environmental impact, economic merit, and adequate compensation, have largely been glossed over in the national press, although in groundbreaking studies in scientific and environmental journals, the Tehri Dam has not fared as well.
		Once an argument for the Dam, the amount of money and effort expended on the mega-project has proved to be a never ending boondoggle (although a bonanza for contractors mostly drawn from outside the region).
	www.bostonglobalaction.net /UK/archive/tehri-1.html (589 words)

	"GANGA" is not for sale / Suez - Degrémont and the Privatization of Ganga Water - by Vandana Shiva, ...
		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.
		Tehri's main town is located uncomfortably close to the swelling waters, which have already submerged parts of the town.
		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.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /global/vshiva2.html (7272 words)

	A paddler travels one of India's great rivers before a dam changes it for good \| By Dan Oko \| Grist \| Main Dish \| 08 ...
		Drought is a major regional concern, and dams such as the Tehri are seen as both a safety net and a down payment on India's industrial promise.
		Just as the hydropower debate echoes across the subcontinent even after construction is well underway on dams, so too do we paddlers continue to feel the dark shadow of the Tehri Dam long after the actual structure has disappeared from view.
		With the settlements upstream all but demolished, the dire warnings that the Tehri Dam is built on a dangerous fault line remain a final, if unlikely, reason that the authorities could delay filling the reservoir.
	www.grist.org /news/maindish/2004/06/08/oko-dam (1872 words)

	There Was Once An Old Tehri Town By Harsh Dobhal
		In 1972, the Tehri project's cost was assessed at Rs 197 crore, and aimed to produce 600 MW of electricity.
		The dam was vehemently opposed by the Tehri bandh virodhi sangharsh samiti (TBVSS), which went to the Supreme Court against the construction in 1978.
		The Tehri project is technically nearing completion, but there are crucial questions and concerns related to the environment, development and rehabilitation – some of which are still unanticipated, and many of which are as unanswerable as Old Tehri town is forever unreachable.
	www.countercurrents.org /en-dobhal281206.htm (1338 words)

	Uttarakhand Solidarity Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was a chilly night in October when the dam authorities shut down the T-2 diversion tunnel of the dam blocking the flow of Bhagirathi after a group of Congress leaders lost a legal battle over the vexed rehabilitation issue in the Nainital High Court.
		DEHRA DUN, NOVEMBER 7: The closure of the last tunnel of the Tehri Dam leading to the slow submergence of old Tehri town has become a political issue, with Congress legislators from Tehri districts up in arms against their Chief Minister N D Tiwari over rehabilitation.
		With the Assembly elections drawing near, the ruling Congress government in Uttaranchal is in the dock as Kishore Upadhaya, Congress MLA from Tehri town, accusing the CM of being insensitive towards the plight of the affected people.
	andolan.blogspot.com (1435 words)

	rediff.com: Panel to review Tehri dam
		Apparently under pressure from the Sangh Parivar to abandon the Tehri dam, the Centre has set up a high-level committee to look into concerns expressed by it over the "self-purification quality" of river Ganga and the project's seismic safety in the wake of the Gujarat quake.
		This will be the third high-powered committee ever since the Tehri Hydel Project was visualised in the late 60s.
		The VHP under the banner of Ganga Raksha Samiti had been opposing the dam on the grounds that it would end the "sacredness and purity" of river Ganges revered by the Hindus.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/11tehri.htm (275 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Jul 1996
		A complete failure of the Tehri dam and release of its 3.5 billion cubic meters of water would cause a disaster surpassing that of the 1975 failure of the Banqiao and Shimantan dams in central China which killed 230,000 people.
		The combination of an 8.5 earthquake with Tehri dam's collapse would be one of the greatest disasters of human history.
		The arguments for and against Tehri Dam are mostly the same as those for and against other large dams (the completed Tehri will be the fourth largest in the world), such as the Three Gorges Dam in China and the Pancheswar in Nepal.
	www.hinduism-today.com /archives/1996/7/1996-7-03.shtml (2197 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The scribe did not seem to have been to the Tehri Dam site to verify veracity of the statement by the then UP chief minister, Kalyan Singh, that the Dam was fail-safe venture.
		Hence, the omission of Tehri from the pictorial in national dailies on 21 October, 1991, was a tendentious act to cover up the culprits at the helm of affairs.
		Dr Brune, the unquestionable authority among geophysicists on dams inter alia.His research findings were the "the basis for estimation of PGA at Tehri".
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Jan01/30/NAT2.html (926 words)

	Janmanch.org - Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tehri Project, one of the largest and most controversial large dams in India, consisting of Tehri and Koteshwar dam, is under construction in the Ganga River basin for almost 25 years in the Northern Himalayan state of Uttaranchal.
		Tehri Town and 15 villages are affected in the first phase connected with the construction of the Coffer Dam, while the remaining areas will be affected in the second phase when the impoundment of water takes place (THDCL 1995).
		In New Tehri, however, people have to come a day in advance as the journey is now longer and since there are limited evening buses, they can only leave the next day, making their journey longer, difficult and more expensive.
	www.janmanch.org /newsletter/getdetails.asp?id=88 (13972 words)

	Tehri dam haunts Cong, BJP alike - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Tehri dam rehabilitation issue is haunting both the BJP and the Congress.
		Maharaja Manvendra Shah, the scion of the Tehri dynasty, is pulling out no stops for an eighth win from here, blaming the state government for not carrying out the rehabilitation properly.
		The word “jinx” has become near synonymous with the controversial Tehri dam with the cost of the project escalating to a whopping Rs 6,000 crore.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may082004/iv4.asp (468 words)

	ACTION ALERT: REVIEW COMMITTEE, COMMENTS AND SOME SUGGESTED ACTION
		In view of the continuing concern relating to seismic safety of the Tehri Dam, a Group of Experts was constituted in June, 1996 to further examine the issue of seismic safety of Tehri Dam.
		The Environment Appraisal Committee of the Department of Environment (1990) had also concluded that the dam design did not provide for an earthquake of magnitude greater than 8.0 on the Richter scale which was certain to occur during the life of the dam.
		The Hanumanatha Rao Committee on Environment and Rehabilitation, which had a detailed look at the Tehri Dam Project in 1997, found that the Project had violated several conditions which had to be fulfilled before the work on the dam could be continued.
	www.narmada.org /related.issues/tehri/tehri.alert.2.html (1123 words)

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