[2] The main project construction contracts were awarded and construction started in 2006,[3] however, work was stopped in 2009 after Professor G. D. Agrawal, one of India's eminent scientists,[4] came close to dying on the 38th day of his fast in protest of the blocking the headwaters of the sacred River Ganges.
[5][6] Tarun Bharat Sangh, headed by Magsaysay award-winner, Rajendra Singh also played a pivotal role in stopping the project.
[citation needed] The Loharinag-Pala project was one of several hundred dams and barrages planned or now being constructed by India, in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.
Together they are expected to provide 150,000 MW of electricity for areas in which power cuts are frequent and demand is growing fast.
The generators would have capacity at a lagging power factor of 0.90, 3 phase, 250 rpm, and rated voltage of 11 to 18 kV.
The baseline methodology used for the project evaluation was ACM 0002: Consolidated methodology for grid-connected electricity generation from renewable sources – version 6; The latest version of the tool for demonstration and assessment of additionality (the additionality tool).
For Forest Clearance, The Certificate for "Non Availability of Non-Forest Land for afforestation" was obtained by UPCL from Chief Secretary (UA).
The Proposal was sent by DM, Uttarkashi to GoUA.now with discontinuation of the project by orders of India government the land acquisition is not being done.
The Proposal was sent to GoUA by DM, Uttarkashi but now not required as project has been discontinued by India government.
[9] For construction of approach road to Dabrani Adit (750 metres (2,460 ft) long ) private, forest and government land was needed.
For construction of approach road to Gunaga Adit (4,000 metres (13,000 ft) long )Private, Forest and Govt land was needed.
For construction of approach road to Helgu Adit (6,000 metres (20,000 ft) long) private, forest and Govt land was needed.
At present the schedule has slipped to end the project somewhere in second quarter of 2013[10] Work on the Loharinag Pala Hydropower Project was stopped after one of India's eminent scientists came close to dying on the 38th day of his fast in protest of the harnessing of the river Bhagirathi, a source stream of the Ganges River.
1932), former dean of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in the first week of March 2009 called off his second fast in a year against Himalayan dam projects, after the Indian government agreed to speed up its inquiry into how electricity could be generated without the flow of the Ganges being impeded.
[11] Addition of 2,353.37 GWh of electricity generation to the Northern region grid would be the main measurable benefit of the Project.
[12] The Environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the NTPC indicates the main adverse environmental impacts of the project will be changes in river hydrology, a decline in the quality of aquatic ecosystems, loss of agricultural and forest land, and resettlement.
Impacts on the rivers will be mitigated by the release of a 0.85–1.1 m3/s minimum environmentally acceptable dry season flow from the Loharinag–Pala dam, the release of monsoon season flushing flows, and yearly restocking of rivers above and below the barrage sites with common snowtrout.