The Centre has granted the much-awaited wood clearance to the Rs 6,947-crore Renuka multi-purpose dam, decades aft it was conceived to code the h2o woes of the National Capital Region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the instauration chromatic of the project, which volition travel up on the Giri stream astatine Dadahu successful Sirmaur territory of Himachal Pradesh, successful December 2021.
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Confirming the stage-II last support granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change connected June 4, Vasanth Kiran Babu, Conservator of Forests, Nahan, said: "The clearance volition facilitate the diversion of 909 hectares of wood onshore for the operation of the dam."
While onshore acquisition has been completed, the dam authorities are successful the process of finalising the method details. The archetypal signifier involves constructing 3 1.5-km diversion tunnels to temporarily redirect the Giri, a tributary of the Yamuna, ensuring minimal disruption to its earthy flow. This is captious to laying the instauration for the 148-m-high rock-fill dam, which is expected to beryllium operational by 2030.
As galore arsenic 41 villages and 7,000 radical volition beryllium affected and 346 families volition beryllium rendered stateless by the operation of the dam. A full of 1,508 hectares of land, including 1,231 hectares of cultivation onshore dispersed crossed 32 villages, 909 hectares of reserved forestland and 49 hectares of the Renuka wildlife sanctuary, would beryllium submerged successful the Rs 6,947-crore project. A 24-km passageway would beryllium constructed for the project.
The task has a chequered history. It was earlier projected arsenic a 40 MW hydroelectric task successful the 1960s. Its elaborate task study (DPR) was formulated by the HP State Electricity Board successful 1993 with the nonsubjective of partially gathering drinking h2o request of Delhi. The aforesaid was submitted to the Central Water Commission (CWC) connected March 31, 1993, for according it the techno-economic clearance.
After the DPR was cleared from the agencies concerned, it was successful May 1994, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan signed a memorandum of knowing (MoU) for the utilisation and allocation of the waters of the precocious Yamuna which included the Renuka retention dam.
The dam volition beryllium designed to proviso a steadfast h2o proviso of 23 cumecs to Delhi and enactment arsenic a flood power measurement during monsoon. The Centre declared it a nationalist task connected February 26,2009, fetching 90 per cent cardinal funds towards the h2o component.
The task was earlier scheduled for completion by November 2014. Its operation was nevertheless stayed by the National Green Tribunal successful 2010-11 owed to objections to the situation clearance granted to it. The task outgo changeable up from Rs 3,572.19 crore to Rs 6,947 crore implicit the past respective years. It was nevertheless fixed stage-I biology clearance connected February 20,2015, which was aboriginal extended.
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