A vociferous protest against big dams reaches its crucial stage when union environment minister Jairam Ramesh was greeted with protest as he was arriving in Guwahti for a public hearing on the NHPC owned big dam in Arunachal Pradesh.
As the Union minister started the public hearing at Machkhowa, ITA, hundreds of local organizations and political parties approached him to register stiff protest again the on going construction of the big dam in Gerukamukh by NHPC in the name of the lower Subansiri hydel project. Citing the expert panel report, these parties and organisations have told the minister that the big dam might spell an ecological disaster for the people in down stream areas.
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--Lame Excuse by NHPC CMD S.K. Garg--
Despite strident protests in Assam with environmental concerns over construction of mega dams, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Chairman-cum-Managing Director S.K. Garg says that the project builders plan to commission three units in March 2012 and the remaining five units by December 2012. This is because Rs 4000 crore of the Rs 9000 crore project has been utilized. That means 40% of the expenses have been made. But is this a reason enough to sacrifice environment and the population of downstream areas which cannot be compensated even if the Indian central government bring all the riches in the world. When land is lost, existence is lost. When existence is lost, the very right to our natural habitat is lost.
In the devastating floods caused by the Tehri dam in Uttarakhand, the central government has promised a package of Rs 500 crore to the state government. That means every year there will be floods, the Indian government will dole out Rs 500 crore. So, within 8 years, Rs 4000 crore will have to be shelved out. If this is the economics involved, Rs 4000 crore is nothing for a rich country like India where many politicians and ministers have pocketed hundreds and thousands of crores. So, the justification of Rs 4000 crore by S.K. Garg sounds to be a lame excuse to keep the industrial corporations who fund the elections happy and satisfied.
Milestone has created in the Tai-Ahom history by launching "Patkai TV" a cable channel from Gargaon, Sivasagar. The channel is starting online weekly video news bulletin as "Patkai News" on every Sunday from January 7, 2012. According to Anup Arandhara, the proprietor of Patkai TV, the channel is also telecasting, daily 15 minutes English news bulletin. The Channel is available online at www.pakaitv.tk, also available at YouTube and Google as Patkaitv.
The 20th biennial conference of All Sonowal-Kochari Students Union will start from Friday january 20 at Margherita. All the preparations are completed for the conference, which will be held at North-Margherita Auditorium.
A Japanese team is conducting an operation to exhume the remains of 11 soldiers at the Guwahati war cemetery on Wednesday. A team of three Japanese officials arrived is in Guwahati to take back the remains of the soldiers and perform their last rites in their own country. The Japanese government had approached the Centre to take back the remains of the soldiers and the exhumation was being carried out accordingly.
The operation to exhume the remains was carried out in presence of officials of Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The remains found in the graves were collected by the Forensic Science Laboratory and would be handed over to the Japanese authorities after the required tests...
Security forces seized a huge cache of explosive materials at Lumding Railway station on Wednesday amid speculations of an impending string of attack in the run up to the Republic Day.
Four bags were spotted by the security forces at the platform No 2 at around 9-30 in the morning. These contained 600 geleatin sticks, 600 pieces of detonators and 12 packets of fuse wires were kept inside four bags.
Dr. Abani Chandra Goswami, a scientist who retired as the Head of the Department of Chemistry from Jorhat Institute of Science & Technology passed away this morning at his Jorhat residence. Dr. Goswami donated his Eyes to Jeuti Eye Bank and his body to Jorhat Medical College Hospital for further studies. He believed in life and pledged to help others live even after death and his promise went fullfilled. After noted social worker Suchibrata Raichoudhury I think Dr Goswami is second one who donated his body to the society.
Biswajyoti Barkataki, Jorhat
The fourth Biennial conference of Sivasagar district commitee of All Gurkha Students Union (AGSU) will be held at Sapekhati March 24-25. The decision has done, in the recently held annual executive meeting of district unit, at Eleven Star Club at Sonari, which is Presided by the President of the district committee, Purukhuttam Subba.
Over one hundred and fifty hardcore militants are all set to surrender before chief minister Tarun Gogoi at a function on January 24.
These militants would represent altogether nine outfits operating in Assam. These outfits include Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam, BCF, STF, APPA, ANLA, Hmar Peoples’ Convention, Kuki Liberation Army, UKDA, KRA. The surrender would pave the way for talks to end insurgency problems in Assam.
Suspected NSCN(IM) cadres are still unleashing a reign of terror along Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district.
A five member group of miscreants looted fifty thousand rupees in cash from a businessman in Charaideo on Tuesday. The incident took place at Namtola area in the evening when the miscreants took away the money from Pancham Shah at gun point and beat up him mercilessly. Even they unleashed terror with blank firing. Meanwhile, security forces are carrying out combing operation to nab the culprits.
At least five persons have been injured at a sensational incident of robbery at a passenger train in Barpeta district on Tuesday.
The incident took place at the Alipurduar bound Siphung Express in between Barpeta and Sorbhog. A gang of ten dacoits who were travelling in the train in the guise of passengers unless terror and took away money, gold ornaments, mobile handsets from the passengers at gun point. Five passengers have been injured. They were identified as Dulumoni Dutta, Khaneswar Roy, Pradeep Chaudhury, Jiban Saha and Manik Mahanayak who were administered preliminary treatment at Sarbhog.
The Gauhati refinery authorities claimed that the recent fire was not an ULFA sabotage. But all eyes are fixed on the soon to be filed enquiry report of a panel set up by the government.
According to the enquiry report the refinery authorities received on Tuesday, the fire was an accident and not a sabotage by ULFA as the outfit claimed minutes after the fire broke out on January 10.
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