Tag: National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)

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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Jammu-Srinagar NH-44 An Unfolding Long Term Disaster in Ramban District?
Climate Change · Cloud Burst · Disasters · Himalayas

Jammu-Srinagar NH-44 An Unfolding Long Term Disaster in Ramban District?

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(Feature Image: Social media image showing scroes of vehicles precariously standing on severely damaaged NH 44 in Ramban on April 20, 2025)

After April 20, 2025 ‘cloudburst’ disaster in Ramban, the role of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH) 44 has been under criticism for adding into the devastation trail. While a significant portion of the NH has been severely damaged in the aftermath, the residents have also blamed the NH work for compromising the drainage system and increasing destruction toll in the affected area.  

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