MeraPahad Community Of Uttarakhand Lovers

Manu ji bahut achhe vichaar likhe hain aapne. Hum koshish karenge ki Govt. tak yeh sab vichaar pahunchae jaaen.

Namaskar
All Board mamber
I want to say to you all that in uttranchal there are lots of NGO/ACTIVITIST are working on this project for Globing warming.I think that they should be talk to with general people. they are our main key fector if they know all would be  know. badi- badi batain karke kuch nahi hoga.
first of all we will have to focus our tourism industery. uttranchal main entery karne se pehle inko yaha ke pryavarn ke bare main awarness  di jaye.
No one should  give permission to go near by of the sorces Ganga&Yamuna. 
kawar shive bhakt haridwar main hi unko rok dena chaiye.
har tourist ko ek viriksh(tree) lagoan abiyan main shamil kiya zana chaiyaain.

Glaring gaps in Gangotri glacial melt study

Science seems to have been the casualty in the study on glacial retreat in Gangotri, source of the Ganga. The Uttarakhand government had commissioned a study to an expert committee in 2006. The committee came out with a report in December 2007, which scientists said was dated and “full of flaws”. Based on the report’s findings, the state issued a five-point public notice on July 17, 2008, stressing on control of anthropogenic activities to prepare against risks resulting from the glacial melt.

The points include entry to Goumukh (the terminus of the Gangotri) being restricted to 150 people everyday, free entry only for sadhus of recognized bodies, check on the number of cattle entering the region and ban on disposing of non-biodegradable waste.

G D Agarwal, a scientist based in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, says though check on anthropogenic activities is welcome, the five-point charter is impractical. “Some of the ashrams in the region can house 500 people. How will the government check entry of people in such ashrams?” he asks.

The notice has come in for criticism from the committee members as well. D P Dobhal, scientist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, said, “Why did the government include controlling cattle entry? There is hardly any vegetation there for grazing.” But wasn’t the notice based on the recommendations of the committee? Dobhal clarifies: “We did not mention this.
 
We had emphasized controlling tourist-movement.” However, there is criticism galore on the expert committee report.

The report was drawn up after a series of meetings and inferences, without any physical verification of the problem of glacial recession. Between 1962 and 1991, the glacier receded 580 m. The committee studied data until 1991, which does not indicate the magnitude of the problem. “The committee should have laid emphasis on climate change, black carbon emissions and global warming. But they concentrated more on anthropogenic activities—a secondary factor for recession. It is true though that we have very little information about Indian glaciers because we do not have many weather monitoring stations near them,” says Syed Iqbal Hasnain, scientist with The Energy and Resources Institute (teri), New Delhi.

Explaining why such a mechanism is important, Hasnain says, “The glacier depends on summer precipitation for its nourishment. Receding snowline and decreased precipitation due to global warming are the problem areas. The committee should have emphasized on monitoring climate change and snow precipitation on the glacier and changes in mass volume.” Dobhal says they did recommend a round-the-clock mechanism to monitor mass and water balance and censors to estimate soot deposition on glaciers.


Two hoots to climate change

B R Arora, chairperson of the expert committee and director of the institute in Dehradun, does not buy the “climate change” argument. “Climate is the average of three decades’ weather. The much ado of scientists about climate change is basically their concern for change of weather, which is a day-to-day factor. This hardly has any effect on recession. It is the anthropogenic activities that contribute much to the problem. Besides, we don’t have quantitative data. Specialists can only draw inferences,” said Arora. He probably discounts the fact that several studies have established that the alarming retreat of the glaciers is due to the warming trend. A university of California study in November 2007 had said, “The elevated regions of the Himalaya, including Tibet, have warmed by more than 1°C in the last century.”

Implementing agencies are another problem area, say critics. The state department of power has been directed to make it mandatory for hydel power projects to have discharge gauging and meteorological stations in the upstream catchment areas. Information collected from these areas should be made available to departments concerned. “It would be foolhardy to expect power projects to set up such stations. At the most, another committee will be formed, which, like the expert committee, will furnish a report based on inadequate data,” Agarwal contends.

 

See the related news.

NAINITAL: What price electricity? Alaknanda, the majestic glacial river from the high Himalayas that gives Bhagirathi its immense volume and turns 
it into the Ganga, is drying up in large swathes (from six to 26 km) even before it meets the Bhagirathi at Devprayag, raising deep concerns about the future of India’s holiest river.

Alaknanda, which once sliced through the Lambagar area just below the 400 mw Vishnu Prayag hydroelectric power project in Chamoli, doesn’t flow there any more. Reason: heavy construction work for a hydroelectric project has forced it to change its course. Environmentalists warn that a delicate ecological balance in the area has been gravely imperilled and say that up to 26 km of riverbeds along the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi have begun to dry up.

In the case of Alaknanda, the tragedy unfolded soon after the Uttarakhand government cleared the construction of a 12-km-long tunnel and a four-storeyed hydro-electric project in Chamoli about two years ago. Apparently, the explosives used to build the project in the nearby river area and the debris of the construction material played a major role drying up of the riverbed. ‘‘This is killing the flora and fauna of the region,’’ says Dehradun-based senior scientist N Ravi Chopra, who conducted a detailed research on the major causes of the drying up of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi riverbeds.

The story at Maneri Bhali village in Uttarkashi district, which Chopra has identified as seriously damaged and dry area, is no different. The fate of its 10-km stretch along the Bhagirathi riverbed was sealed by large quantities of debris of construction material for constructing a power-house and other buildings for another 400-mw project.

‘‘These dry stretches run for at least 20km from the construction site. The river thereafter begins to revive when other streams and rivulets join it,’’ said Chopra. For a government eager to undertake development work in rural areas, the revival of rivers doesn’t seem to be the top priority. The director of state disaster management cell Piyush Rautela said: ‘‘We are concerned about the damage to riverbeds. We’ll have to find a middle ground where development and river protection could coexist.’’

‘‘It will be our utmost effort to maintain a balance between development and ensure that it doesn’t affect our rivers,’’ said chief minister Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri at a press conference here last week. All that can be said is the efforts should have begun two years ago when the hydel projects began. From now on it will be an uphill job trying to save the Alaknanda.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Ganga-source-Alaknanda-drying-up/articleshow/4618938.cms

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आईएएनएस ॥ देहरादून : हर साल चैत के महीने में खिलने वाला उत्तराखंड का राज्य वृक्ष बुरांश इस बार माघ महीने में ही अपना सौंदर्य बिखेरने लगा है। वैज्ञानिक और पर्यावरण प्रेमी इसे जलवायु परिवर्तन का खतरा मान रहे हैं। राज्य वृक्ष बुरांश अमूमन समुद्र की सतह से पांच से आठ हजार फीट की ऊंचाई वाले भूभाग में होता है और यह चैत माह यानी मार्च से अप्रैल महीने में खिलता है। करीब 15 से 20 दिन के अंदर फूल खिलने की प्रक्रिया संपन्न होती है। बुरांश का जूस हृदय रोगियों के लिए बेहद फायदेमंद माना जाता है।
गोविंद बल्लभ वानिकी एवं कृषि विश्वविद्यालय, रानीचौरी के पारिस्थितिकी के वरिष्ठ शोध अधिकारी वी.के. शाह का कहना है कि जलवायु परिवर्तन और शीतकाल में देर से बारिश होने के चलते बुरांश का फूल समय से पहले खिल गया है। उन्होंने बताया कि इस समय पर्यावरण का तापमान छह डिग्री सेल्सियस के हिसाब से बढ़ रहा है।
चिपको आंदोलन के प्रेरक चंडी प्रसाद भट्ट का कहना है कि मौसम में आ रहे बदलावों के कारण हमारी वनस्पति भी इससे प्रभावित हो रही है और इसके कारण ही बुरांश समय से पहले खिल गया है। इसका असर फसल चक्र पर पड़ने के साथ ही जीव जंतुओं पर भी पड़ रहा है। पहाड़ी इलाकों में वनस्पतियां धीरे धीरे लुप्त होने लगी हैं। उन्होंने इस बारे में शोध किए जाने की जरूरत महसूस की है।


http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7380395.cms