Tehri Dam What Do Experts Say

Bharat Dogra Several expert reports on the Tehri Project have pointed to serious inadequacies in the available seismicity data and have stressed the urgent need to collect and analyse the information before the project can be pronounced safe THE desirability of Tehri Dam Project (TDP) has been increasingly questioned on safety and ecological grounds. With various claims and counter-claims being made on this subject today, it is instructive to look at what senior geologists officially involved in the project have to say about it. Here we look first at what the original project report has to say and then at the opinion of reputed experts which has been officially obtained by the project authorities.