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Journalist writing on Environment | Avid traveller, passionate about Himalayas | 🐾🐾
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Feb 2 11 tweets 3 min read
Two of my colleagues write about an important aspect ....

@Indiametdept (IMD) decides to shut down all 199 district agromet units (DAMU) across country

#agriculture #forecast #IMD #climatechange

A #thread

theweek.in/wire-updates/n… When I had first written about the subject about 1.5 years ago, these DAMUs, the District Agro-Met Units were sending advisories to over 43 lakh farmers across 27 states.

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Nov 5, 2020 13 tweets 7 min read
One more #hydropowerproject proposed in the #Himalayas in #HimachalPradesh

The 210 MW Luhri Stage-I Hydro Electric Project located on river #Satluj #IndusBasin

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On Nov 4, 2020, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the investment of Rs 1810.56 crore for this #hydropowerproject in Shimla & Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh. It will generate 758.20 million units of electricity per year.
#Himalayas
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Jan 9, 2020 21 tweets 19 min read
1. #Thread

“Prime Minister @narendramodi has blinked.” This is the ONLY way I can describe it. Pitched against the powerful forces of the MNCs and trans-national aid agencies, the Prime Minister of India – a huge market for all things has kowtowed to the global forces. @narendramodi 2. An important Q: Why is it that @narendramodi could take what appeared as tough decision in his first term when @BJP4India and the NDA had less numbers? And, now with the right numbers, he is kowtowing to certain MNCs masquerading as aid agencies?
Jan 12, 2019 53 tweets 30 min read
नमस्कार, मी निवेदिता खांडेकर. या वर्षीच्या, म्हणजेच २०१९च्या ट्विटरसंमेलनात भाग घेताना अत्यंत आनंद वाटतोय. मला सलग तिसऱ्या वर्षी इथे बोलावल्याबद्दल @marathiword यांचे मनःपूर्वक आभार. #ट्विटरसंमेलन नागपूर शहर व विदर्भातल्या इतर जिल्ह्यातल्या काही ठळक वारसा वास्तूंविषयी मी आपल्याला माहिती सांगणार आहे. यात काही प्राचीन, पुरातत्वीय अवशेष किंवा इमारती आहेत तर काही बऱ्यापैकी नव्या पण तरीही गेल्या शंभरएक वर्षातल्या आणि अगदी एकच ५० वर्षांहून कमी वय असलेली वास्तू आहे. #ट्विटरसंमेलन