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Activists Express Concerns over IMG’s Report on Ganga [1]

Report favours hydro projects but fails to give blueprint for balanced environmental needs and viability of Ganga as a water system

The recommendations of the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on hydropower projects set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Himalayan headwaters of the Ganga seemed to have failed to address the concerns of environmentalists.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2013
Urmi A Goswami [2]
Economic Times (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [4], Hydroelectricity [5], Environmentalists [6], Ganga [7], Biodiversity [8], Alakananda [9], Nanda Devi NP [10], Himalaya [11], Environment [12]
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