• DR. PANKAJ GUPTA
• Yogesh Mehta
• Amit Chanjta

Dams and hydropower projects ensure water for irrigation in summers or dry months and confirm drinking water supply and promote fish farming; yet, there are certain negative impacts linked with hydropower projects, like the flooding of large areas, thereby destroying the habitats of animals and displacement of the large population causing emotional trauma. It has also resulted in the submergence of flora, which decays anaerobically producing greenhouse gases. Millions of people around the globe have been displaced by the setting up of dams. Though the technical parameters pertaining to the setting-up of hydropower projects are ensured, the environmental and social parameters are often ignored or overlooked and the local communities have to pay for this. This paper is based on the fieldwork carried out in Tattapani and adjacent villages, which have witnessed the impacts of the Kol Dam.

Environmental impacts, dams, hydropower projects, biodiversity loss, displacement, rehabilitation and resettlement

"ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT OF KOL DAM HYDROPOWER PROJECT: A CASE STUDY OF TATTAPANI, DISTRICT MANDI, HIMACHAL PRADESH ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.g253-g262, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206634.pdf

"ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT OF KOL DAM HYDROPOWER PROJECT: A CASE STUDY OF TATTAPANI, DISTRICT MANDI, HIMACHAL PRADESH ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppg253-g262, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206634.pdf