Director, Centre for Environmental Studies,
Gitam University, Visakhapatnam-530 045
Tehri Dam project has been taken up and completed by the Government of India inspite of the misgivings expressed on the safety of the project by the former Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi and also a large number of eminent seismologists and environmentalists from all over the world. The Government of India working at the behest of vested interests among the officials, politicians, contractors and the civil engineers brushed aside on scientific, technical and environmental objections completed the project even without making the disaster management plans including risk analysis as per laws under the environmental Protection Act, 1986. Even the courts were not furnished with full information on the safety aspects of the project. Since International experts in seismology have predicted catastrophic earthquakes of over 8.5 magnitude in the area, a review of the project must be made like in USA to save the people.The following extracts and figures indicate the nature and magnitude of the problem.
http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/HimHazardScience.html
http://www.gitam.edu/cos/env/tehri/tehridam.html
http://profshivajirao.googlepages.com/tehridam
