Mandi: After getting the final environmental approval for the Thana Plaun Hydroelectric Project to be built on the Beas River near Kotli Tehsil of Sadar area near Mandi.
The work on this project which has been pending for decades will now start. The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department of the Central Government has approved this project.
Assistant Inspector General Forest Sunit Bhardwaj issued the letter of its approval. There is a wave of happiness among the people of Mandi district, especially Tehsil Kotli of Mandi Sadar, who have been waiting for this for decades because this is a project that is expected to provide employment to the people along with many other benefits.
The water of the dam of this project will come to some distance from Mandi city and in such a situation, lakhs of people of Mandi Sadar and Drang area will also benefit through the lake formed from it.
The specialty of this project is that there is negligible displacement in it, most of it is government land which is across the Beas River. The government has handed over the construction work of this project to Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, which has completed most of the formalities.
About 406 hectares of land of Forest Department Mandi and Jogindnagar divisions will be included in the project, the final approval of which has now been received. Here, on getting the final environmental approval of Thana Plaun Hydroelectric Project, Mandi Sadar MLA and former Energy Minister Anil Sharma said that the years-old dream of late Pandit Sukhram is now going to come true.
He said that complete forest clearance has come for the construction of Thana Plaun Hydroelectric Power Project. Clearance for the first phase had already been received but now with the complete forest clearance, the last hurdle of this project has also been crossed. And now the Sadar MLA is making continuous efforts to get this project off the ground as soon as possible, the result of which is that this project has now got forest clearance.