National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is currently working on plugging leakages in an underground tunnel their 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project. This was after there was water discharge started receding. This plugging work will be complete in another two to three months time.
From the underground tunnel 200 litres per second is discharged compared to 700 litres per second in December. For this NTPC carried a survey and found that there was no relation between the water discharge from the tunnel and drying up of water sources in and around the hill resort of Joshimath in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
The project is being opposed by locals and environmentalists citing that it is affecting the local sources of water and creating environment problems in the highly fragile zone. NPTC has clarified that the construction work on this project will continue as there are no such evidences. The Tapovan project is expected to be commissioned in 2012-13.
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