GANDHINAGAR: Vibrant Gujarat wants to dot some of state's major canal networks, including the Narmada main canal, with mini-micro-hydro power projects. And imagine whom does it propose to choose for this - a company called Krishna Kanhaiya Hydro Power Pvt Ltd, owned by a UK-based NRI Riyen Ramani.

Already, it has earned a contract worth Rs 18 crore to start building mini-microhydro power projects on the canal coming out of Karjan dam, lying dormant for nearly three decades.

Apropos a news item carried by a section of press, Munda Hydropower Project said the news item casts unjust and inappropriate aspersions on the concerted and sincere efforts of the sponsors towards developing of the MMDP. A mega hydropower project awarded for the first time not only in the history of Pakistan but in the world for development in the private sector under the Pakistan Policy for Power Projects Year 2002.

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Social activists Medha Patkar and Bhai Vaidya have submitted a letter to Divisional Commissioner Nitin Kareer demanding a CBI inquiry into the land acquired for the Lavasa resort township, 60 kms from

An additional 2.88 million acre feet (MAF) water will be available for irrigation after the completion of Mangla Dam Raising Project.

Construction work of over Rs 100 billion for raising of the country's second biggest Mangla Dam is in full swing and so far over 54 percent of the construction work on the mega project has been comple

The ongoing countrywide dry spell, particularly in catchment areas of the Khanpur Dam, has dropped the water level of the reservoir, official sources here on Saturday.

Pakistan water storage capacity that currently stands at merely nine per cent of average annual flows would further go down by 12 per cent over the next decade.