NO THREAT TO SURVIVAL OF HIRAKUD
DAM
RAJYA SABHA
Government of
Orissa and the Dam Safety Review Panel are of the view that there
is no threat to the stability of the Hirakud Dam.
Ministry of Water
Resources is not aware of observation of the International Commission
on Large Dams (ICOLD) that life span of large dams will be reduced
by 50% in tropical areas.
However, the observed
rate of siltation of the Hirakud Dam is higher than the rate adopted
at the time of design of this Dam.. This may affect its planned
life.
In order to reduce
the rate of siltation in Hirakud Dam, Ministry of Agriculture,
under a Centrally sponsored scheme of soil conservation in the
catchments of River Valley Projects, covered Hirakud catchment
and treated 24 watersheds in the then State of Madhya Pradesh
and 9 watersheds in the State of Orissa.
This information
was given by the Union Minister of State for Water Resources,
Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty in written reply to a question from Shri
Ekanath K. Thakur in the Rajya Sabha today.
