NHPC and exploitation of Kashmir’s water resource

Aaliya Ahmed None other than a former minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din, has described NHPC in J&K State as East India Company, fleecing the natural resources and giving peanuts in return. NHPC is back in limelight as a recent RTI application by a Delhi-based NGO NGO, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI),  has revealed that NHPC has earned from 2001 to 2015 Rs 194 billion from the sale of power generated from the different power projects being executed by them here. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has realized…

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