29 September 1-15, 2008 • Down To Earth COVER STORY Devaprayag Puri Srinagar Karnaprayag Chamoli Pipalkoti Joshimath Badrinath Ghastoli Kedarnath Tehri Tharali Okhimath Uttarkashi Yamunotri Gangotri Chham Rishikesh Tehri (2,400 mw) Dam height: 260.5 m Proponents: THDC Reservoir: 45 km Current status: Under operation 1st stage commissioned: 2006 Villages affected: 109 Land Acquisition: 5200 ha Koteshwar (400 mw) Dam height: 97.5 m Proponents: THDC Current Status: Under construction Kotli Bhel II (530 mw) Dam height: 82 m Tunnel: 0.78 km Reservoir: 29 km Proponents: NHPC Current Status: Proposed project Villages affected: 17 Land Acquisition: 606.14 ha Bhagirathi river Ganga river Alaknanda river GLACIER GLACIER GLACIER GLACIER Maneri Bhali II (304 mw) Tunnel: 16 km Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Under operation Date of commission: 2008 Maneri Bhali I (90 mw) Dam height: 39 m Tunnel: 16 km Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Under operation Date of commission: 1984 Pala Maneri (480 mw) Dam height: 78 m Tunnel: 14.02 km Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Proposed project (stalled) Villages affected: 7 Land Acquisition: 82 ha Loharinag Pala (520 mw) Tunnel: 14.41 km Proponents: NTPC Current Status: Under construction Villages affected: 12 Land Acquisition: 164 ha Harsil (210 mw) Tunnel: 5.06 km Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Proposed project Alaknanda, Badrinath (300 mw) Dam height: 18 m Tunnel: 4.65 km Proponent: GMR** Current status: Proposed project Villages affected: 5 Land Acquisition: 83.9 Ha. Bowla Nandprayag (132 mw) Tunnel: 9 km Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Proposed project Nandprayag Langasu (141 mw) Current Status: Proposed project Tamak Lata (280 mw) Tunnel: 5.7 km Proponents: UJVNL Current status: proposed project Karnaprayag (160 mw) Current Status: Proposed project Devsari dam (252 mw) Proponents: SJVNL Current status: proposed project Utyasu dam (860 mw) Current Status: Proposed project Srinagar (330 mw) Tunnel: 4.08 km Reservoir: 20 km Proponents: GVK** Current Status: Under construction Villages affected: 24 Land Acquisition: 475 ha Lata Tapovan (310 mw) Tunnel: 7.83 km Proponents: NTPC Current status: Under construction Villages affected: 4 Land Acquisition: 76.77 ha Vishnugad Pipalkoti (444 mw) Tunnel: 16.47 km Proponents: NTPC Current status: Under construction Villages affected: 14 Land Acquisition: 120 ha Tapovan Vishnugad (520 mw) Dam height: 22 m Tunnel: 12.16 km Proponents: NTPC Current status: Under construction Villages affected: 12 Land Acquisition: 240 ha Vishnuprayag (400 mw) Dam height: 14 m Tunnel: 11.323 km Proponents: Jaypee Group** Current status: Existing project Date of commission: 2006 Kotli Bhel IA (195 mw) Dam height: 82.5 m Tunnel: 0.31 km Reservoir: 18.4 km Proponents: NHPC Current status: Proposed project Villages affected: 11 Land Acquisition: 278.33 ha Rudraprayag Hydroelectric projects in Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins Bhaironghati I (380 mw) Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Proposed project (stalled) Bhaironghati II (65 mw) Proponents: UJVNL Current Status: Proposed project (stalled) Alaknanda basin projects Bhagirathi basin projects NFOGRAPHIIC: DTE GRAPHICS TEAM UJVNL-Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd NTPC-National Thermal Power Corporation THDC-Tehri Hydro Development Corporation NHPC-National Hydroelectric Power Corporation ** -Private companies Source:www.sandrp.in Kotli Bhel IB (320 mw) Dam height: 90 m Tunnel: 0.73 km Reservoir: 27.5 km Proponents: NHPC Current Status: Proposed project Villages affected: 27 Land Acquisition: 500.62 ha