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.
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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday asked police to nab the culprits in the Guwahati molestation case within the next 48 hours. But out of 12 identified police have so far arrested only 4 miscreants. That too five days after the shocking incident that brews widespread acrimony. Chief Minister Gogoi on Friday evening appointed a Special Task Force to look into the matter. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women formed a three-member team which is in Guwahati to conduct a probe.
A Bihu troupe from Assam will dazzle in London Olympics. A 16-member troupe will be performing Bihu during the Indian campaign for the London Olympics on August 1 and 2 at Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre in London. Led by Bihu exponent Ranjeet Gogoi, the team will lead the trip on July 25. Also, the creations of Utpal Baruah, an associate professor in the department of design at IIT, Guwahati, will be exhibited at the ‘Olympic Fine Arts-2012’ to be held in London for the visitors during the Olympics.
She lost her mother when she was just eight months old. Her mother Lakshi Dey died in a mysterious burning incident in Birubari,Guwahati five years back. Father Syamol Dey had abandoned her the very next year and was disappeared forever. Grandfather Pramod Debnath took helpless Priyanka to his house at Puthimari village near Kalaigaon after the death of her mother. Life was colorful for Priyanka at the company of her grandfather. But something terrible was waiting for little Priyanka. She lost her vision completely in 2009 due to pox infection. Illiterate Pramod could never understand that she was loosing her vision. It was too late to realize the cruel reality. This is the miserable heart...
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Saturday targeted a satellite TV news channel alleging that a reporter of the channel was actively involved on the Guwahati molestation incident. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Saturday, the RTI activist said that the entire incident was planned by a group of miscreants involving NewsLive reporter Gauravjyoti Neog. Gogoi produced some video clippings to justify his claim he made o Friday. According to him, Neog planned the incident for footage and he was also part of the mob that assaulted the girl. He further slammed the channel’s management, editor in chief and managing for trying to shield the reporter and demanded that the channel should be...
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday demands President’s Rule in Assam to bail out the state from the worsening law and order situation. Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that Guwahati is teeming with lumpen elements and criminals where the people have no safety and security. He further demanded a CBI probe into the incident saying that the incident suggests total collapse of law and order in the state. He further claimed that the DGP is aware of the whereabouts of the criminals ad that he can’t take action in face of pressure from the government. KMSS activists, will gather on Sunday in Guwahati to protest the breakdown of law and order in the state.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday asked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to strictly deal with the perpetrators in the Guwahati molestation case. Talking to reporters in Chandigarh, Chidambaram strongly condemned the brutal molestation of a girl in Guwahati. On the other hand, a delegation of the National Women Commission is expected to arrive in Guwahati to assess the incident.
Police have arrested one more youth in connection with the recent molestation case on the GS Road. Operation is on to nab 8 others culprits who outraged the modesty of a teen aged girl in full view of a crowd on Monday. According to police, 12 others have been identified on the basis of the video clip of thebrawl. One of those arrested earlier was a contractual employee of the Assam Electronic Development Corporation Ltd Amarjyoti Kalita, who had also acted inan Assamese serial. The other two arrested were Dhanonjoy Basfor and Bulbul Das. They were charged under Sec 341 (wrongful restraint), Sec 143 (unlawful assembly), Sec 294 (obscene act), Sec 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), Sec 354 (...
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A woman died of electrocution when she was trying to charge her mobile phone in Kamrup (Rural) district on Friday. The incident took place in the morning in Pitambar Hat Bajali village, when the woman jolted as she put the mobile charger to the switch and fell unconscious in her house of the district. Identifiedas Lalita Kumar, she was rushed to the Rangiya Civil Hospital hospital where she was declared brought dead.
EMFA urges Akhil to prove allegation against media person Guwahati, July 13: The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed serious concern at an activist’s unfounded allegation against a television journalist (also a member of EMFA) being involved with the molestation of a girl in the street of Guwahati on Monday last. The EMFA argues that the verbal allegation leveled by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity leader Akhil Gogoi, in a press meet held at Guwahati Press Club on Friday, against Gaurav Jyoti Neog (of NewsLive) is out of context, and the forum has asked the activist to prove his allegation within 4 pm tomorrow (Saturday).
Otherwise, the forum demands a public apology...
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