NEW DELHI: The Union Environment Ministry has issued a show-cause notice to the company building the Maheshwar dam in the Narmada Valley after hundreds of affected people marched to the Ministry here demanding rehabilitation.
According to the notice, if the company cannot explain why 80 per cent of construction is over even while rehabilitation efforts lag behind, the project could be closed.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a letter to Union Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh assured that there would be no let up in the efforts to complete rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected population.
BHOPAL: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has written to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan informing him of
Causing a setback to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the MP High Court (Jabalpur bench) has allowed the Maheshwar Hydro Electric project to carry out its ongoing construction and rehabilitation works provided that none of 61 villages which are likely to face submergence partially or completely, face submergence during the course of construction works.
Indore, March 22: The fate of Indore municipal corporation's most ambitious water project Narmada phase III seems to have run into rough weather with the Narmada Bachao Andolan throwing a dampener on the R&R work of 440 mw Maheshwar project.
