Tag: Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS)

2025: Silt accumulation in Indian Dams: Reducing entry of silt is the only viable option  
Dam Decommissioning · Dam Safety · Dams, Rivers & People

2025: Silt accumulation in Indian Dams: Reducing entry of silt is the only viable option  

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(Feature Image: Luhri-I HEP muck dump along Satluj river. Credit HNA, Aug 2024)

This annual overview highlights the critical issue of siltation in dams across India. Silt accumulation is defeating the very ‘multi-purposes’ for which they were built. While the reduced storage has been hampering dam-based water supplies, it is also leading to their fast filling up and untimely releases in monsoon season thus creating avoidable floods. It is in some case has also been resulting in plans to construct additional reservoirs and increase in dam height.

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Kaleshwaram Project 2025: Inquiries Done, Actions Missing
Dam Disaster · Dam Safety · Dams, Rivers & People

Kaleshwaram Project 2025: Inquiries Done, Actions Missing

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(Feature Image: Wide crack in Medigadda (Lakshmi) barrage of Kaleshwaram. Credit: Nagara Gopal)

The year 2025 has seen revealing information on three inquiry reports highlighting how the Kalewshwaram project have become a massive failure on all fronts be it designing or implementing the dam project or even acting on probe reports. While govt seems to reverify liability of officials indicted in V&E report, it ended up seeking CBI investigation after tabling Ghose panel report in state assembly in Aug 2025. Similarly, the NDSA report is being followed only for fixing the damages while action against the responsible govt officials and private players is clearly missing.

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