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INDIAN GOVT APPROVES CLOSURE OF DAM DIVERSION TUNNELS.
DEHRADUN, Dec 3 Asia Pulse - Despite strong opposition by environmentalists and community groups, the Indian government has approved the closure of two diversion tunnels from the controversial 2400 mw Tehri Hydel dam project.
The Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC), the agency set up to construct Asia's highest dam, has already issued orders to close the t-3 and t-4 tunnels within a day or two, the sources said here on Friday.
The move comes in the wake of the decision to postpone the deadline of commissioning of the first phase of the Dam, scheduled for March next, has now been postponed to March 2003. The work ...
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- 11 buried as landslides hit tunnel in Tehri.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. August 3, 2004 700+ words
...workers of a private company were buried alive and 10 others injured when heavy landslides hit an underground tunnel of 2400 mw Tehri hydel project Monday night, official said on Tuesday. However, the 260.5 metre high Tehri dam, which is highest in Asia...
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. August 3, 2004 700+ words
...PTI) At least 17 workers of a private company were buried alive and 11 injured when a portion of an underground tunnel of Tehri hydel project caved in after heavy landslides in the area. Nearly 50 to 60 workers, mostly labourers from Jharkhand and Bihar...
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. August 4, 2004 700+ words
...federal government Wednesday ordered a high-level probe by the Central Water Commission into the Monday night disaster in Tehri hydel project in north Indian state of Uttaranchal when a tunnel collapsed in landslide claiming 25 lives so far. Federal Power...