Uttarakhand government would shortly formulate special policies for the development of new hydel projects and other reconstruction works in view of the June 16-17 floods. For this purpose, the government would set up a core group to formulate the new policy involving top environmentalists like Anil Joshi, the head of HESCO and The Energy and Resources Institute Director-General RK Pachauri, said the State Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna.
Keeping in all environmental concerns in mind, these policies would be formulated, the chief minister said, after a meeting of the Uttarakhand Environment Index Development Committee in New Delhi on August 24.
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