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High Court seek answer from State Govt over rehabilitation of Kishanganga affected families 7/2/2016 11:42:42 PM Early times report Srinagar, July 2: High Court today issued a notice to government and NHPC on a petition seeking directions to quash rehabilitation and resettlement policy approved by state cabinet last December for affected families of the Kishanganga Hydroelectric project in Bandipora in north Kashmir. The directions were issued by a division bench of the court comparing Justice M H Attar and Justice A M Magrey on a petition filed by members of joint committee of Kishanganga hydroelectric project affected families of village Badwan Wanpora and Mastan Khopri, Tehsil Gurez. In the petition, the committee said the state government in order to explore the generation of the hydro electric power handed over the execution of the 330 MW Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project to the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC). The project shall utilize the waters of the river Kishanganga running across the valley of Gurez after its diversion through a 23-KM long tunnel to the Power House located in village Kralpora Bandipora. The project involves displacement of the 400 families. In order to rehabilitate and resettle the project affected families, the petitioners said, the government of India formulated a comprehensive policy after having in-depth deliberations in 2007. "These villages would submerge completely into the waters of the dam leading to the displacement of these tribal families permanently," they said. It is pertinent to mention here that initially while the execution of the project, the state had sought the consensus of the locals on a policy formulated in 2011. "The policy was by and large containing the various benefits which are contained in the National Policy of 2007, however the respondents had not resorted to the procedure as is provided in the National Policy of 2007." The state government, they said, has by and large completed the measure work of the execution and it is expected that by this month, the NHPC would commission the first phase of the project. However, the most vital and important issue of the resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected people is yet to be taken care of by government. "The respondents have also till date failed to notify the project affected area and besides have also failed in carrying out the comprehensive baseline survey or census of the project affected families in accordance with the National Policy for Rehabilitation and Resettlement 2007," they said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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