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These leaders had recently visited Srinagar to oppose the uplifting of the temple when locals showed them black flags and asked them to leave. "Uma Bharati, GD Aggarwal, Nishank and their followers should not be allowed in any hydro power project area and if they do so, they should be arrested under National Security Act," Kaushal, who runs a leading NGO in the city named RLEK, said.
Dams are the backbones of any civilisation as they play a crucial role in water conservation for irrigation, municipal supplies and industries, generating power, flood control, recreation navigation, river rafting etc, fish production and road bridges, Kaushal said. Kaushal also asked the state government to immediately restart the stalled hydro project of Lohari Nagpala (600 MW), whose resumption had also been recommended by President Pranab Mukherjee, when he was the chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the matter.
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