New Delhi: More than 100 hydroelectric projects planned by the Uttarakhand government are in jeopardy. The Union environment and forests ministry's Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has decided not to give forest clearance to any of the proposed projects until the National Ganga River Basin Authority conducts a cumulative impact assessment study of all proposed dams.

LUCKNOW: Dead fish tell no tales and just as well. While environmentalists and devout mourn the death of thousands of fish found floating in Ganga at Shukratal in Muzaffarnagar last Sunday, suspense over the incident deepens as governments of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand attempt to wash their hands off the mess.

In a remote village of district Chamoli, Uttarakhand, farmer Hari Singh no longer needs to travel to the distant bank branch.

Even after a technical committee of the government put in a report stating that the 600MW Loharinag Pala dam can be shut down, the government has been unable to take a call on the hydel project on Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand.

Minister of forest & environment (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh, announced the scrapping of two major hydel projects, the Pala Maneri (480 mw) and the Bhaironghati (381 mw) on the Bhagirathi river.

Mr Ramesh however, admitted that work on the Loharinag Pala run of the river power project, also on the Bhagirathi and 100 kilometres upstream of the controversial Tehri Dam, would continue.

DEHRA DUN: Rhododendrons are in full bloom all over the Chakrata hills, surprising many, including scientists, as they usually flower in March-April only.

As the Rispana and Bindaal rivers in Dehradun start to come alive with the advent of rains in Uttarakhand, the residents of the settlements on the banks of these rivers will once again face the threat of floods.