CES Technical Report 123, February 2011 ¦ Citation ¦ Contact ¦  PDF  ¦  HOME  ¦ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL LARGE SOLAR TELESCOPE PROJECT AND IT’S ECOLOGICAL IMPACT IN MERAK AREA T.V. Ramachandra* Durga Madhab Mahapatra M. Boominathan K. Sankara Rao Harish R. Bhat   Home   Contents Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Contents Sl.No Content Page No. 1 Executive Summary 1 2 Project Description 5 3 Site survey, selection criteria and reasons for selecting the proposed site at Pangong Lake: 5 4 Consideration and evaluation of project alternatives 9 5 Methods used to identify, predict and assess impacts     12 6 Description of the Baseline Environment 12 7 Historic records indicative of the sequence in changes of Pangong lake water level 23 8 Study Area: Pangong tso (Site with 10km buffer) 28 9 Land cover Analysis 34 10 Flora 37 11 Fauna: Avian distribution 45 12 Fauna: Mammals, Reptiles... 58 13 Bird Migration 67 14 Impact of the proposed activity on migrant avian population and mitigation aspects 77 15 Water quality 78 16 Environmental Impacts 80 17 EMP: Environment Management Plan 81 18 References 84    Back Top Next    E-mail     |     Sahyadri     |     ENVIS     |     GRASS     |     Energy     |     CES     |     CST     |     CiSTUP     |     IISc     |     E-mail

Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Centre for Sustainable Technologies,
Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP),
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.
E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Tel: 91-080-22933099/23600985, Fax: 91-080-23601428/23600085
Web: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy

Durga Madhab Mahapatra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.
E-mail: durgamadhab@ces.iisc.ernet.in

M. Boominathan
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.
E-mail: boomi@ces.iisc.ernet.in

K. Sankara Rao
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.

Harish R. Bhat
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.

Citation: Ramachandra T.V, Durga Madhab Mahapatra, M. Boominathan, K. Sankara Rao and Harish R. Bhat, 2011. Environmental Impact Assessment of the National Large Solar Telescope Project and its ecological impact in Merak area., CES Technical Report : 123, Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012. doi:http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/pubs/ces_tr/TR123/index.htm

Contact Address :
	Dr. T.V. Ramachandra Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA. Tel : 91-80-23600985 / 22932506 / 22933099 Fax : 91-80-23601428 / 23600085 / 23600683 [CES-TVR] E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in,    Web : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy