The Uttarakhand police has launched investigations into a government complaint against some unknown persons who sent a fake fax message that called for resumption of work of GVK’s 330-Mw Srinagar hydel project.
The project, which is scheduled to be commissioned in December this year, had hit a roadblock for the past two years over the issue of submergence of Dhari Devi temple.
An FIR has already been filed in a Dehradun police station after some unknown people used forged signatures of state Power Secretary Umakant Pawar in the fax message that was recently sent to different government departments.
The government had stopped the construction of work of the project around the Dhari Devi temple last year after a prolonged agitation by a section of the Sangh Parivar, including former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti, who are opposed to the shifting of the temple that would be submerged in the dam’s reservoir to be built on the Alaknanda river.
GVK officials claimed construction work other than around the temple was going on without any hindrance. “We are still hopeful of completing the project as per schedule,” said a company official.
Since Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank intends to contest assembly election from Srinagar constituency, the issue had taken political dimensions with the state government setting up inquiry committees over the issue.
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The fate of reports of inquiry committees is also not yet known. “The assembly elections are just 10 months away. We don’t think that any decision is possible before that keeping in view the sensitivity of the matter,” said a government official.
GVK was given the task of completion of the Srinagar hydel project by the previous Congress government after the project remained suspended over the past two decades.