From: Parineeta Dandekar (Pune) & Himanshu Thakkar (Delhi)
South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP)
parineeta.dandekar@gmail.com, ht.sandrp@gmail.com
August 20, 2015
TO:
Tata Sustainability Group
Army & Navy Building, 2nd Floor
Mahatma Gandhi Road,
Mumbai 400001, tsg@tata.com
- Shankar Venkateswaran
Chief – Tata Sustainability Group: svenkateswaran@tata.com
- Dr. Avinash Patkar
Head – Environment Services: apatkar@tata.com
- Sudhakar Gudipati
General Manager – Community Services: sgudipati@tata.com
- Alka Upadhyay
General Manager – Environment Services: aupadhyay@tata.com
- Ajit Chaudhuri
General Manager – Community Services: achaudhuri@tata.com
- Sourav Roy
Program Leader – Tata Uttarakhand Program: aroy@tata.com
- Abhishek Goyal
Senior Manager – Environment Services: agoyal@tata.com
- Zarir DeVitre
Manager – Environment Services: zdevitre@tata.com
- Manjula Sriram
Manager – Community Services: msriram@tata.com
- Lucas Saldhana
Assistant Manager – Tata Sustainability Group: lsaldhana@tata.com
Dear members of Tata Sustainability Group,
We are encouraged to write to you on this subject, thinking that considering the name, objective of the TSG and also the various statements on the TSG website, you will take prompt and necessary action on this subject.
We are writing to you in the context of Bhima basin in Maharashtra and Krishna river basin in general facing the worst monsoon deficit, crop loss and water scarcity. Millions of farmers are facing crop loss, livelihood loss and worst. Ujani dam on Bhima River is below its live storage level now and in the downstream Telangana, Nagarjunsagar is at zero live storage level and Srisailam has just 9% water in its live storage. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have said they have no water to save farmers’ crops; they are reserving the available water for drinking water. Continue reading “Open letter to Tata Sustainability Group to stop westward diversion of Bhima basin water by Tata Hydro projects”
SANDRP 