Hand over shanan power project to Himachal, demands BJP LEADER
- August 05, 2020
- Updated: 01:43 am
DW BUREAU
Senior BJP leader and former PWD minister Thakue Gulab Singh has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Energy Minister Piyush Goyal to hand over the Shanan Hydel Project built in 1936, to Himachal Pradesh without any further delay before it is totally decayed and ruined and turns into shambles. He has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating condition of the project. He alleged that Punjab government and the PSEB were conspiring to render this one of the most beautiful project into wreck and ruin at a point of time when its 100- year lease with the sovereign Mandi State during the British rule which was going to expire in 2024, four years from now.
The Shanan Project was spread over an area of over 100 kilometer from Jogindernagar to the Harabagh Forest Range in the backdrop of lush green and snow covered ranges of Shivalik of the grand Himalayan ranges of Dhauladhar where the tourists from all over the world used to stay in camps for months for hunting, trekking and fishing.
Small rivulets of Beas and its tributaries knitted used the green valleys for hunting and fishing. The rivulets of Beas abound in trout and tourist from home and abroad enjoy cold water trout fishing for two months.
(editor@dailyworld.in)