bhakra dam

In a memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister, a group of organizations of Himachalis settled in metropolitian cities known as The All India Himachal Social Organizations, has requested to include representations of bhakra dam oustees in the management of Bhakra Beas Management Board so that their long pending demands could be discussed at highest official platform.

Issue of rehabilitating bhakra dam oustees has now reached Prime Minister Narendra Modi. All India Himachal Social Organizations, an organization of Himachalis settled in metropolitian cities, in a memorandum submitted to him has requested to include representatives of bhakra dam oustees in the management of Bhakra Beas Management Board so that their long pending demands could be discussed at highest official platform.

Playing down fears of a tilt in the bhakra dam, where the water level has crossed the maximum mark, the authorities Monday said there was just a 1.05-inch deflection in the structure and there was no need to worry.

Manshi Asher of Himdhara, an NGO working for the rights of bhakra dam oustees, said 36,000 families had lost their homes and land to the project.

Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh said that all the left out bhakra dam oustees would be provided plots for construction of their houses in Bilaspur Town within two years.

bhakra dam was completed in 1970s but 40 years later people displaced for its construction are still struggling to get their dues from the government.

Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) on Tuesday held a grand function to mark the golden jubilee anniversary of the bhakra dam at Nangal.

Agricultural fields in several villages of Anandpur Sahib and Nurpur Bedi blocks of Ropar district were flooded on Saturday due to heavy rain and water being released from the bhakra dam.

Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) is likely to postpone or altogether skip an inspection that is vital to understand the condition of bhakra dam.

Irrigation experts from the region are concerned over bhakra dam not regaining its original form after water it is holding recedes. Experts say "dam deflection" is a routine phenomenon where the structure is minutely displaced when reservoir is filled and almost regains its form when the water is emptied.

After bhakra dam brimming to its capacity, rising water levels in Pong Dam have now become a cause for concern.

Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan will not face any more restriction on water supply as, unlike last year, water levels in Bhakra and Pong dams have gone up substantially with recent rains.

With deflection — in layman's parlance 'tilt' — confirmed in the structure of the iconic bhakra dam beyond permissible limit, serious concerns for the safety of the dam are being raised.

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday assured an earliest action into the demand of possession of land to oustees of bhakra dam.Oustees of bhakra dam had been relocated in Sirsa, Hisar and Fatehabad districts.

PATHANKOT/TALWARA: To tighten security at Pong Dam and bhakra dam, the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) has decided to install closed circuit cameras at vital points of the respective dams.

The dam boasts not just of its sheer size, being the 23rd tallest reservoir in world measuring 741 feet, but the huge tracts of land it irrigates.

Twenty-two days before the Union power ministry ended Punjab’s representation in Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) on February 23, the board issued an order on February 1 for the deployment of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in place of state police forces at projects managed by it.

Two more deaths in the past 24 hours have pushed the toll due to floods to 43 in Punjab. Over 14,000 acre of agricultural land in Muktsar is the fresh casualty.

Chandigarh, Jul 27 () With rains "eluding" their catchment areas, water level in Bhakra and Pong reservoirs was today recorded more than 50 feet lower than the figure last year even as water requirement of three partnering states Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan are being fully met.