With the threat of flash floods caused by formation of a lake in Tibet ending, a team of Indian officials will visit the region from tomorrow to hold talks with Chinese experts on how to meet such challenges in future.
The six-member expert group, headed by R K Singh, Joint Secretary and Chief Relief Commissioner in the Home Ministry, will be in Lhasa till September 14 for "exchanges and consultations" with Chinese experts on the landslide in the Parechu river in Tibet, official sources said here today.
The experts have been invited by China to discuss the reasons for landslides and how such challenges can be met, they said.
A major threat of flash floods that could inundate large parts of Himachal Pradesh had been created in the first week of August after a big artificial lake was formed in Tibet on Sutlej river.
An alert was sounded and the vulnerable population was moved to safer places. Four of the six units of Naptha-Jhakri Hydel project which resumed generation were also shut down.
However, towards the third week of the month, level of Sutlej river remained normal and satellite pictures showed no significant increase in the size of the Tibetan lake which had reached 193 hectares.
During the crisis, India and China were in regular touch with the latter providing data and information about the lake through a hotline to New Delhi.