HP village plugs hydel project
in an unprecedented development, the members of a gram sabha in Himachal Pradesh (hp) exercised rights conferred on them under the fifth schedule of the Constitution and disallowed the Rs 7,759-crore Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Power (hep) Project. Permission was denied on the ground that the authorities were rushing through procedures without involving local inhabitants and activists. It was also alleged that the environmental impact assessment (eia) was peppered with flaws.
The 1000-megawatt (mw) project