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.
Properties worth crores of rupee were reduced to ashes as a devastating fire broke out at the Guwahati refinery in Noonmati on Sunday. The incident took pace at around 2-40 in the afternoon at an OICL owned sulfer recovery unit and the fire was rapidly spreading to create panic among the workers who came out of their work places. The reason of the fire has yet to be ascertained and the authorities have yet to ascertain the extent of damage. Fire tenders were called to take the situation under control. However, there is no report of any loss of life and casualty in the incident. Investigation is on.
Two top KLO cadres have been arrested during a joint operation by police and army on Sunday. According to information, the top ranked cadres of Kamatapur Liberation Orgnisation cadres have been identified as Sumitra Roy alias Simitra Das, the sister of KLO chairman. Another senior cadre is Dhananjoy Barman. Both they have been arrested from the house of BPF leader at No 2 Maoragaon where they have been staying for the last couple for days. Some arms and ammunition have been seized from the duo.
Two ULFA suspected ULFA rebels were at a joint operation by police and army in Kamrup district on Saturday. The incident took place on Saturday wee hours when Boko police and army’s Kumaon regiment were on a joint operation. The deceased were yet to be identified but police claimed to have recovered from the a 9 mm pistol, one Chinese pistpl, one Chinese grenade, one Kilo explosive, 5 kgs of RDX, currencies of India and Bangladesh, 30 billets and 2 magazines. Investigations are on.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is flying down to Haflong on Saturday a day after he chaired the unified command meet in Dispur and discussed the modalities of the peace process in the trouble torn district. . Accompanied by director general of police Shankar Baruah, the Chief Minister helding talk with top ranked police and civil officers and took stock of the situation prevailing in the hills district.
Gogoi will present the facts and figures before the Centre as he would be talking to Union home minister P Chidambaram in Delhi on Tuesday.
Nearly 100 persons were killed more than 200 injured in an orgy of incidents of violence during the last three months.
A special court has remanded Putul Gogoi to five days CBI custody a day after the notorious crude oil thief was arrested in Guwahati. Gogoi, who was also called a kingpin in the nefarious fake note racket, was produced before the CBI special court on Thursday where he was remanded to 5 days judicial custody. Details are awaited.
A former MP from Bihar lands in legal trouble as he approached the Gauhati High Court against Assam halth minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. A division bench of Gauhati High Court has rejected writ petition filed by Bihar's former MP Sukhdeo Paswan who said that his public interest litigation for reopening TADA cases against the minister Sarma should be reopened. In a sudden move, Paswan filed the writ petition on Wednesday seeking withdrawal of the PIL. The court, however, denied it and instead asked him to file an affidavit by September 3 justifying his latest move.
A blueprint of a major NDFB strike was averted when Assam Rifles recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Assam’s Sonitpur district of Assam on Thursday morning.
According to information, the arms and ammunitions belonged NDFB’s third battalion which were kept inside a trunk and was recovered by 44 and 46th Asam Rifles jawans at Ghoamara Dhekidol in Sonitpur district. These include a 27 rounds of AK-47 bullets, 5 empty cartages of point 3 NOY 3, 110 detonators, 199 wireless detonators, 3 BDFB cash memo books, 500 grams of IED palatches, 2 time watches, some batteries, 12 gelatin sticks along with 7.63 MM carbine machine gun, a 15 kg UED, 200 meter long flexible...
Two ULFA cadres were killed at an encounter with police and army in Bagsa distict of Assam on Wednesday midnight. According to information, the encounter took ppace at Gulabeel area at around 2 in the husday wee hous as police and army were launching a joint operation in the area acting on a specific information that two ULFA cades were hiding in the area. Police later, recovered a grenade, an AK-56 rifle and a pistol from the ULFA cadres. One of the deceased was identified as Samir Nath. Details are awaited.
Will you believe that, the prestigious Board of Secondary Education, Assam and Assam High Secondary Education Council can issue fake certificates? Here are two examples, where it shows that both the institutions might have issued false certificates for dubious reasons.
Recently a conscious Guwahatian found two certificate copies of a particular lady (Jebin Sultana), where both documents were issued wrongly or she might made tempered it with fake documents. It was observed that two of her certificates (first one H.S.L.C. Examination under SEBA (1991), Roll-148, No.714 and second one Assam Higher Secondary Education Council Examination, 1997; Roll 234, No.A-167 of Farkating H.S. School)...
Flood waters refuse to recede in Assam on Tuesday. The situation is taking a grim turn where half the area of the Karizanga National Park was submerged by the surging waters of the Brahmaputra, forcing exodus of animals to safer places.
On the other hand, worst-hit Dhemaji district continues to remain cut off for the 11 day as the NH-52 was submerged by waters of the Brahmaputra. Half of the 820 sq km area of Kaziranga, a World Heritage site and home to the endangered one-horned rhinoceros, was submerged. Meanwhile, forest department have built high platforms but there was large-scale exodus of animals to the hills of neighbouring Karbi Anglong district by crossing the adjoining National...
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