Time to decommission vulnerable hydropower projects in Himalayas: Former Shimla Dy Mayor Tikender Panwar
Sep 11, 2026
Amid growing concerns over extreme weather events, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and rapidly changing climatic and geological risks in the Himalayan region, environmentalist and member of the Himalayan Executive Committee (HEC) on Urbanisation in the Indian Himalayan Region, Tikender Singh Panwar, has called for the decommissioning of hydropower projects located in highly vulnerable areas before nature itself forces their closure.