Indira Sagar Reservoir to have water upto 260 metre<\/p>\n
Oustees to get exemption in reference time limit
\nBhopal: Friday, September 8, 2006: Updated 20:48 IST
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\nThe Madhya Pradesh High Court has given its judgement to fill the Indira Sagar reservoir to its maximum limit i.e 260 metre in the case filed by Narmada Bachao Andolan against National Hydro Power development Corporation and the Madhya Pradesh government. It may be noted that as per the instructions of Madhya Pradesh high Court the reservoir was allowed to be filled upto 255 metre and the judgement were kept reserved after the hearing of all the concerned parties on August 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The M.P. High Court in its judgement granted the permission to fill the reservoir upto 260 metre and also directed that the provisions announced under Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal (NWDT) will not be applicable on Indira Sagar Project’s rehabilitation work.<\/p>\n
As per the direction of M.P. High Court the excess water more than 255 metre was being released through dam. The state government and NHDC while informing the High Court about the rehabilitation work requested the High court to permit them to fill the reservoir to its maximum level i.e. 260 metre and the M.P. High Court in its decision permitted the reservoir to be filled upto 260 metre as well as exemption in reference time limit has been provided to the oustees.<\/p>\n
While welcoming the judgement the Chairman, NVDA, Shri Rakesh Sahni informed that the state government is active and sensitive towards the protection of rights of the affected families, and the Vice Chairman Shri Uday Kumar, NVDA added that the Madhya Pradesh will be benefited due to increase in the limit resulting in generating additional power.<\/p>\n
It may be mentioned apart from thousand megawatt power production, the irrigation capacity of one lakh 23 thousand hectare will also become possible under Indira Sagar Project. The reservoir under this project will be made as the biggest reservoir having capacity of 12.2 .billion cubic metre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}