1st time challenged (though unsuccessfully ) by theTBVSS (tehri bandh virodhi sangharsh samiti ) in the supreme court of India , in 1985 otherwise a known environmentalist sunderlal bahuguna started the movement and remained the most important and known figure behind the movement
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Tehri dam is the main dam of the Tehri Hydro Project, a major power project located near Tehri in the state of Uttarakhand in India. Andolan is Hindi and means "movement". The dam has been the object of intense protests from environmental groups and the people of this region. The issue of relocation of more than 1 lakh (100 thousand) people of the area has resulted in protracted legal battles and has delayed the project. Besides this, environmental concerns regarding the location of large dams in the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayan foothills, there are also concerns regarding the dam's safety.
the Tehri dam is located in uttarakhand.
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The Tehri, Bhagirathi in India is the highest, it is 856 feet high (261 meters)I think the highest dam in India is Tehri (856Ft)Rogun Dam in Tajikistan. It is 1,099 ft hightehri dam
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Do you mean the Tehri Dam?. If so, construction started in 1978, but was halted for many years because of various difficulties. It resumed in 1990, and was completed in 2006.
The movement began in Chamoli district in 1973 and spread throughout the Uttaranchal Himalayas by the end of the decade. In Tehri district, Chipko activists would go on to protest limestone mining in the Dehra Dun hills in the 1980s as well as the Tehri dam, before founding the Beej Bachao Andolan or Save the Seeds movement that continues to the present day.
Devdov ,the russian Architect was the architect of Tehridam