India hosting global dam experts meet in backdrop of Uttarakhand flash floods

The Uttarakhand tragedy earlier this month has once again raised the spectre of hydropower projects in the ecologically fragile regions.

NEW DELHI: India is hosting a high-level meeting of the Paris-headquartered International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). This symposium of experts on dams, to end tomorrow, comes in the backdrop of one of the worst human and ecological tragedy following a glacier burst and flash floods in Uttarakhand.

The incident earlier this month has renewed concerns over hydropower projects in the ecologically fragile and earthquake-prone Himalayan region.[Readmore]