{"id":28,"date":"2015-10-05T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theteamwork.com\/articles\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-10-05T00:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T19:21:46","slug":"2016-4-delhi-water-woes-environment-ministry-renuka-dam-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theteamwork.com\/articles\/2016-4-delhi-water-woes-environment-ministry-renuka-dam-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Environment Ministry Declines Clearance to Renuka Dam Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ministry of Environment and Forests Declines Clearance to Renuka Dam Project in Himachal Pradesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi (Delhi, India), October 05, 2015<\/p>\n<p>In a setback to the Delhi Government&#8217;s solution to Delhi\u2019s water problems, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 rejected the Renuka dam project in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh, although the ministry had cleared this project in 2009.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"8601\" style=\"text-align:left; margin-top:px; margin-bottom:px; margin-left:px; margin-right:px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw-ga afw_ad afwadid-8601  \">\r\n                                                                <script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"background:none;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7798450846111448\" data-ad-slot=\"6557536103\">\r\n                                                                <\/ins>\r\n                                                                <script>\r\n                                                                        (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n                                                                <\/script>\r\n                                                                \r\n                                                        <\/div>\n<p>The Renuka dam project could have met twenty-five of the Delhi\u2019s water needs, providing 275 million gallons of per day (MGD).<\/p>\n<p>The Renuka dam project was to be built on the Giri Ganga, a tributary of the Yamuna River with a capacity of 542 million cubic meters of water storage.<\/p>\n<p>The Renuka dam project was waiting for the necessary approval from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, as it would entail the cutting of trees in a 990-hectare area.<\/p>\n<p>To construct the Renuka dam project, the Himachal government had applied for a go-ahead to the Ministry of Environment and Forests\u2019 Forest Appraisal Committee (FAC).<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Forest Appraisal Committee gave its permission to proceed after necessitating that the impacted forest area be reduced to 775 hectares instead of 990 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Environment and Forests, in a letter to the Himachal Pradesh government, wrote, \u201cThe government has declined to accept the recommendations of the Forest Appraisal Committee as the proposal involves high-density forest area requiring felling of a very large number of trees\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Renuka dam project was to be build at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,600 crore. 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