New Delhi, Feb 13 (PTI) The Centre has approved a proposal for the use of nearly 400 hectares in the Dudhwa-Lagga tiger corridor in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district to construct the Jamrani Drinking Water Multipurpose Project, despite the lack of a recommendation from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
The project involves building a 480-metre-long and 150.60-metre-high gravity dam across the Gola river in Jamrani village in the hill state.
It envisages the creation of a reservoir with a maximum capacity of 208.6 million cubic metres (MCM) and live storage of 142.72 MCM, which will be utilised to provide drinking water supply to Haldwani (42.7 MCM), irrigation of 57,065 hectares (9,458 ha in Uttarakhand and 47,607 ha in Uttar Pradesh), and generation of 14-megawatt hydropower.
