New Delhi: BJP leader Uma Bharti said on Sunday that the tragedy caused by the breaking of the glacier is a matter of concern as well as a warning. At the same time, she said that as a minister, she was against building hydropower projects on the Ganga and its main tributaries. Bharti was the Minister of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation in the Narendra Modi-led NDA-1 government.
In a series of tweets in Hindi, she said that the breaking of the glacier has damaged the hydropower project and caused a terrible tragedy. He said that the sage Ganga of the Himalayas is a concern as well as a tragedy or hai.
She wrote, “In this regard, in my affidavit from my ministry about the dams of Himalayan Uttarakhand, it was requested that the Himalayas are a very sensitive place, so there should not be a hydroelectric project on Ganga and its main tributaries. . “
She said that with his decision, the reduction in the power supply could be bridged by the national grid. Bharti said she was in Uttarkashi on Saturday and is now in Haridwar. On Sunday, the Dhauli Ganga river flooded due to the collapse of the Nanda Devi glacier at Joshimath in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
