From the archive record
Garhwali village women and children plant Pangar trees along the Assi Ganga river, at a forest department nursery. Above Uttarkashi town, this forestry projects i part of a compensatory afforestation for Tehri Dam Hydro Power Corporation or THDC (Tehri Hydro-power Dam Corporation). The Tehri Dam has been a mixed blessing and 28 years hence (this was filmed in April 1988), we can safely say that it has actually been a failure as the dam has now started silting up. It did, however, create a buffer during the Uttarakhand Floods, preventing downstream damage and flooding in Haridwar and Rishikesh, by filling up the excess capacity within the dam. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. Th