Pranab Gives Go-Ahead For Dam On Bhagirathi

The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Mukherjee and attended by Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh and power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday.

While a technical committee of the government had recommended that the dam project could be shut down without causing any concerns of flooding if additional measures were taken, the three-member group has decided to continue work on the project based purely on fiscal concerns. Read the full report here.

Source: Nitin Sethi, TNN, New Delhi