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.
The main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad has demand immediate dismissal of the Tarun Gogoi government alleging that it has failed to ensure safety and security of the people.A seven member delegation of the party led by the party president Chandra Mohan Patowary on Monday called on President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan and submitted a memorandum before her alleging utter lawlessness in the state which is evident from the recent serial blasts. The delegation comprised working president Phani Bhushan Chaudhory, general secretary Padma Hazarika, MPs Sarbananda Sonowal, Birendra Prasad Baishya, Dr Arun Sarma and Kumar Dipak Das.
The Rajasthan police have denied link between the serial blast in Guwahati and Jaipur. After a careful on the spot study in Guwahati, they are confirm that no link could be established between the perpetrators of the two incidents.A high level team of experts led by Deputy Superintendent of Police was dispatched to Assam was rushed to Assam to ascertain possible similarities between the Jaipur serial bomb blasts and Assam serial explosions. They have returned with the assessment that as per the investigation there is no similarity between the incidents in Assam, which took place last month, and those in Jaipur in May, and the explosives in the blasts in the northeastern state were of a...
A few hours the union home ministry pinned the blame on NDFB and ULFA’s for the recent serial blast engineered by the external forces, NDFB has refuted the charges firmly.Talking to a private satellite TV channel on Monday NDFB general secretary Govinda Basumatary has cleared that those arrested in this connection belong not to his outfit. He has alleged that his outfit is being implicated unnecessarily.Notably, ten days after the serial blast, the Union home ministry disclosed that ULFA and NDFB were behind the tragic incident micro managed by the external forces.ULFA was quick to deny its involvement hours after the serial blast. But NDFB has come to follow the suit 24 hours after...
A major train accident was averted in Morigaon district on Monday. He was a villager who stopped an express passenger train on finding that the sleeper of a railway track missing at a place near Thekeraguri railway station.According to information, the villager waved his clothes tied to a bamboo pole to signal the approaching Guwahati-Dimapur Jansatabdi Express train to stop. He came to notice the sleepers below five-meter stretch of the railway tracks missing while crossing the tracks.The speeding train managed to stop at about 500 metres from the location, sources said. Senior railway officials who rushed there and passengers rewarded the villager.
Artists enacting a street play "ETA GANA BISFORANOPR ARAMBHANI...." organised by the All Assam Sanaskritik Parishad protesting against the recent serial blasts in Assam and helping death and injured in the blast in Guwahati on 06-11-08. Photo: UB Photos.
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Rattled by the recent serial blast, New Delhi’s top security managers has hunkered down on Wednesday and finetune a slew of strategies to strengthen the security scenario with a better intelligence network.Reliable sources here say the Centre would soon to set up an intelligence coordination group to institutionalise all inputs and put them into action at the ground level. The meeting, chaired by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and attended by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekar besides others decided to strengthen these security measures soon. On the other hand, the Centre has asked the Assam government in clear terms to strengthen security across the state as external forces...
After the serial blast that rocked Assam with a toll of 88, now it’s a spate of protest that spills to the national capital. The main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of the Red Fort demanding immediate dissolution of the Tarun Gogoi government alleging a cocktail of the terrorist forces with the power-that-be-in Dispur. Talking to Assam Times, AGP MP Dr Arun Kumar Sarma said the state has been witnessing an increasing trend of ISI activists to make the situation more grim. He said if these refuse to die down, the situation would span out of control. Dr Sarma further said a judicial probe is needed to unearth the truth behind the entire tragic...
On the aftermath of the serial blasts in Assam that killed over 80 and wounded nearly 400 people, the Journalists' Forum, Assam has organized a Citizen's Meet on Wednesday at Guwahati Press Club. The meeting will begin at 2 pm. The meeting is supposed to discuss about the aftermath of the terror attacks in India and probable plan of actions to raise voices against the heinous crime. The Journalists' Forum, Assam believes that India in general and Assam in particular have stepped in to a serious phase, where we have already been exposed to the growing threats of international terrorism in a massive way.
The students of Delhi woke up today against the serial blasts in Assam. A large number of students took out a protest rally in Delhi University, North Campus and traversed the whole Delhi Univesity Enclave this evening.The march started at around 4.30 pm and went infront of locations such as Kirori Mal College, Ramjus College, Hansraj College, Delhi University Faculty of Arts, Gywer Hall and the Vice Chancellor's residence. They returned to the Vivekananda Statue where they lit candles and prayed for blast victims. This was a crowd of more than 700 students which consisted of students from all parts of India. They raised slogans in Assamese and Hindi against the Assam government and...
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