User:Henry S. Bradsher

The article on the Bakhra-Nangal dam in India fails to mention the American engineer who played the key role in its construction. He was Harvey Slocum, who died in 1961, after the dam was almost complete but before it was dedicated. As an Associated Press reporter based in New Delhi, I visited the dam in 1959 and was shown around by Slocum. My AP article on the dam is the only source I can now cite for his role, and I no longer have a copy of it. It's curious that the article has no mention of who actually built the dam, instead just reporting on the bureaucratic background to its construction. Slocum should be given credit. I believe the Wikipedia article on Slocum mentions his role in this dam, one of several he was building from the 1930s on.