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From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Date: 25 November 2011 18:29:58 GMT
Subject: [mukto-mona] Protests in India over Tipaimukh dam
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Dhaka, Nov 25: Different environmental, social , NGOs and political parties in Assam and Manipur have become vocal in protesting against the central government for constructing the Tipaimukh dam in Churachanpur district under Manipur in India, according to reports reaching Dhaka. Protests over the construction of the controversial construction of Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Power (HEP) Project continue also in other parts of India.
Meanwhile, a committee on people's and environment (COPE) has been reportedly observing five-day sit-in agitation in Assam from Thursday which will continue till Monday. COPE has also submitted a memorandum addressed to the chief ministers of Assam and Manipur, prime minister of India and also central environment and energy ministers to stop construction of the dam.
Protests over the planned construction of the Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Power (HEP) Project continue even in Manipur where the site is located and Assam.
A leading civil society group North East Dialogue Forum (NEDF) said, the controversial construction of mega dam on the Barak river in Manipur disrespects the calls of the people from both upstream and downstream (Barak valley) for seeking their consent and to adhere to existing environmental and social norms.
The Manipuri newspaper Hueiyen Lanpao reported this Friday.Co-ordinator of the Forum S Dhanabir said, the project proponents of the Tipaimukh HEP are yet to conduct a detailed and independent Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), which is required under the Environment Protection Act, 1986 of India and its amendment of 1994, where data should encompass information collected over a period of at least one year of all seasons to bring out the likely impact of the project on ecology, environment, human and wild life population at the site itself and both up and downstream.
For this reason, people from upstream and downstream, both in Barak Valley and Bangladesh, protesting the construction of Tipaimukh dam for ages, he pointed out.
"It is a fact that the planning of the Tipaimukh Dam Project was done by the government of India without proper research on its social and environmental impact in Manipur, said S Dhanabir urging the Manipur government to negotiate with the centre for adequate compensation to the state and indigenous people inhabiting the project area after re-assessing the exact damage the project would cause to the land, wildlife and the culture of thousands of families around the project," said a report written by S Dhanabir, the social activist and founder administrator of JNU.
He said on completion of the Tipaimukh Dam Project, a lake of 240 sq. km will be created in the project area and consequently thousands of people around the lake will lose their livelihood.
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