Tehri Dam is a 260.5 m (855 ft) high rock and earth-fill embankment dam. Its length is 575 m (1,886 ft), crest width 20 m (66 ft), and base width 1,128 m (3,701 ft). The dam creates a reservoir of 3.54 cubic kilometres (2,870,000 acre⋅ft) with a surface area of 52 km 2 (20 sq mi).

In 1990, the Indian government and Tehri Hydro Power Corporation began planning to dam the Bhagirati River at the Himalayan foothill town of Tehri in Uttar Pradesh. Plans indicated that it would be the fourth largest dam in the world.

While the Anti Tehri Dam Movement began in the late 1970s as a local resistance movement against the dam, it evolved into a civil movement in the 1980s as the participants of the movement diversified beyond the boundary of the locality.

The Tehri Dam is situated in the Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand, India. This multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam is the tallest dam in the country. The dam was built in 2006 for providing water to generate electricity, irrigation as well as municipal water supply.

It is well known that Dam projects have a very important role in utilizing water resources and thus play an essential part in the development of civilization. This paper discusses one such dam in great detail. The Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India and the third largest in …

2024年6月25日 · The Anti-Tehri Dam Movement and Environmental Concerns. The opposition to the construction of the Tehri Dam began in the 1980s and lasted until 2004. Led by environmental activist Sunderlal Bahuguna, the movement aimed to protect the inhabitants of the village and preserve the already fragile ecosystem.

The Tehri Dam Movement was a social movement that took place in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India, in the early 1990s. The movement was led by environmentalists, social activists, and local people who were opposed to the construction of the Tehri Dam on the Bhagirathi River.

2010年2月24日 · For the last 12 years construction has continued unabated on India's Tehri Dam amidst staunch opposition, massive environmental degradation and social upheaval. Even lack of sufficient funds has not stopped this monstrous, concrete Juggernaut; it has been moving along in stages, with money acquired from state and national budgets.

2014年12月1日 · This paper focuses on the shifting contours of the anti-Tehri dam movement in the pastthree decades.

2016年1月20日 · Hanna Werner’s The Politics of Dams: Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India is a study of the anti-Tehri dam movement and the people’s protests that it spawned in the...