The high court of Uttarakhand has directed the chief secretary to soon take action on the recommendation of the Tehri district magistrate to resolve the problems being faced by those affected by the construction of the Tehri dam. According to the case details, a committee of the Tehri dam affected people of Gajana and Pratapnagar had filed a petition in the high court stating that these areas had become 80 kilometres more distant after the construction of the Tehri dam.
This has resulted in various problems being faced by the people of the affected areas. The committee had submitted a memorandum to the authorities in 2009 informing that about 13,000 families live in Pratapnagar and about 2,500 families live in Gajana and all these people have to spend a lot more on transport.
The committee demanded that considering this, each of the affected family should be reimbursed expenses for the period between 2009 and 2017. This and other demands were raised by the petitioners. Hearing the petition, the single bench of justice Rajiv Sharma directed the state government that the chief secretary should soon take action on the recommendations of the Tehri district magistrate to resolve the issues of the affected people.