Dhaka unaware as Delhi gives go-ahead to Tipaimukh dam

[INDIAISM]

Nobody believes India or Indians...

that's your problem not ours and then don't come to us that we havn't asked you before building a dam.....btw this dam will be a major boost to manipur's economy....

 

[INDIAISM]

Actually la-Hasina(Awami league) not only believe in India but I think she consider them god otherwise how can she allow them transit when India trying to turn Bangladesh into desert yet no hard resistance coming from Dhaka. Not to mention border killing by coward BSF.

it was a buisness deal she havn't done any favour for us she had allowed transit through your country to N-E and in return we have allowed transit to u through our country to Bhutan and Nepal

 

[TopCat]

that's your problem not ours and then don't come to us that we havn't asked you before building a dam.....btw this dam will be a major boost to manipur's economy....

Monipur need BD more than they do with India. Why your Monipuri guys come to BD and crying for help instead going to Delhi???

 

[Banana]

Monipur need BD more than they do with India. Why your Monipuri guys come to BD and crying for help instead going to Delhi???

Manipuris are free to go wherever in India where they want!

It's the Reverse!

Bangladeshis flock in Millions to India over the Decades!

 

[Roybot]

Monipur need BD more than they do with India. Why your Monipuri guys come to BD and crying for help instead going to Delhi???

Do you want to back up the claims you are making, or just tell us what exactly what you talking about?

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Monipur need BD more than they do with India. Why your Monipuri guys come to BD and crying for help instead going to Delhi???

Back it with facts.

Put your money where your mouth is as they say in the US.

Bring home the bacon.

 

[TopCat]

Back it with facts.

Put your money where your mouth is as they say in the US.

Bring home the bacon.

Once such incident

Protest Tipaimukh Dam: Manipur team voices Tipai fear in Sylhet

for the rest you should look for and Google is the right answer.

 

[Roybot]

Once such incident

Protest Tipaimukh Dam: Manipur team voices Tipai fear in Sylhet

for the rest you should look for and Google is the right answer.

Tree huggers don't belong to any state, nation. They just protest against anything and everything.

Go through the link posted in post #18.

 

[TopCat]

Tree huggers don't belong to any state, nation. They just protest against anything and everything.

Go through the link posted in post #18.

Ya right as it did not satisfy your ego. Its not only 3 people, but i seen thousands of people protesting in Monipur streets.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Ya right as it did not satisfy your ego. Its not only 3 people, but i seen thousands of people protesting in Monipur streets.

And what were you doing in Manipur?

Inner line?

Crossed the border?

 

[TopCat]

And what were you doing in Manipur?

Inner line?

Crossed the border?

First back with facts. Now i have to send you my passport.

Sorry dude.. just use your google and key board.

 

[Roybot]

Ya right as it did not satisfy your ego. Its not only 3 people, but i seen thousands of people protesting in Monipur streets.

But are them thousands of Manipuris you speak of "running to Dhaka" for help on this issue? No they aren't.

Who went to Dhaka to do the "talks",

The delegation includes Prof RK Ranjan Sinha of Earth Science Department of Manipur Central University, environmentalists Ramananda, Joseph Marr, Vikramjit and Arnab Dutta. Engineer Muhammad Hilal Uddin, coordinator of the Jatiya Tipaimukh Bandh Protirodh Committee accompanied the team to Sylhet.

Yep thats there job profile, they are "environmentalists". When you fail in life and fail to get a real job you become a full time environmentalist

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

First back with facts. Now i have to send you my passport.

Sorry dude.. just use your google and key board.

Please understand it is not Google and a keyboard.

Foreigners are not allowed without a permit.


I wore the Olive Green, if that helps you to understand.

 

[integra]

Well I've read the article, posted by Roy. It seems the same conclusion has been made repeatedly in a loop. Although it has been claimed before that the project
shall be a “run-of-the-river” type dam but it seems
it shall regulate flows.

Now the difference between Farakka and tipaimukh is
that the former diverts the water through feeder canals
which the author admits claiming indias unethical
practice, this shall rather have to discharge water
through Bangladesh. Such as the three gorges dam

What are the consequences then? Shruma river
originates from Barak and goes through Hakaluku Haor.
Because of distraction in the cycle of Haor the ecosystem of that region shall be destroyed.

This Haor is an internationally protected Ramsar site.
One of asias largest marsh wetland resources. Atleast
5 -10 lac population directly/indirectly depends on this ecosysytem, they shall be ruined.

In the following picture I have marked the Haor on left and the dam on right, notice the difference in scale.

Although water level will rise in dry season and excess water in rainy season will be diverted the author does not calculate the loss of water due to greater surface area upstream by evaporation and silt formation downstream resulting some net loss.

Similarly to fill up the reservoir it will take 5-6 years, by that time Haor will be lost due to reduction in flow and people shall blame it on the authorities.

Anyways there needs to be more investigations as
the whole proposal seems hollow, I couldn't even find how much area shall submerge upstream to perceive the time frame in reduction flow.

My conclusion is, just because it generates only 1500mw
this project shall bring more problems then solutions.

 

[integra]

Politically speaking, as many of you are claiming monipuris are not protesting
should read this....

NGO condemns Tipaimukh Dam propaganda
Dimapur, July 17 (MExN): A local Human Rights organization today denounced a reported statement of the new chairman-Managing Director of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (NEEPCO) who allegedly said environmentalists and NGOs are misleading the people on the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Dam project.
The allegation and the government's forcefully going ahead with the proposed mega-dam project despite people’s objection clearly reflect the insensitivity and indifference of the government and NEEPCO on the environmental and developmental concerns of the indigenous peoples in the region, Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation (SIPHRO) said in a statement today. Secretary of the SIPHRO Lalremlien Neitham appended the statement.
“The government and NEEPCO are instead misleading the public on the proposed destructive project through false promises, militarisation, staged and restrictive public hearings that were held without free, prior and informed consents of the indigenous peoples,” the SIPHRO stated.
Calling the ‘insensitivity and indifference’ of the government and NEEPCO ‘absolutely inhumane, undemocratic and unconstitutional,’ the organization said the indigenous peoples’ have been marginalised.
“The indigenous peoples who will be directly and indirectly affected by the Tipaimukh Dam project were already left out and marginalized by the proposed project. As a result, they are unaware of the adverse impacts the project would have on them. The democratic process for delivering ‘free, prior and informed consent’ was totally absent. Moreover, there is no ‘active, free and meaningful’ participation from the public,” the Human Rights organization said.
The SIPHRO said is no identification of the people who would be affected by the project; no recognition of the survival and cultural uniqueness of the indigenous peoples who, along with their land and resources, would be affected.
“Monetary compensation was employed by the implementing agencies and dam builders as a method to win the consent and approval of the indigenous peoples in their pursuit to build the dam. Nothing about the proposed project is transparent or made accessible to the public. There is no assessment of the legal status of the indigenous peoples as reflected in the country’s constitution and legislation.”
The organization stated further that the adverse impacts of the Tipaimukh Dam project, whether short term or cumulative, have been seriously under-estimated. “Monetary compensation should never be employed to reduce and alienate the indigenous peoples from their land, rivers and natural resources,” the SIPHRO said.
The SIPHRO has declared that the Memorandum of Understanding between NHPC, Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVN) and the Manipur state government is without the knowledge, consent, confidence, and approval of the Hmar people. Therefore, the organization said the MoU is declared null, void and invalid.
The organization has demanded that the government and the implementing agencies immediately and comprehensively adopt the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams.

In BD Awamis will not defend and try to mingle pathetically
while BNP shall just wait until the dam is finished so that later
on each other can blame it on the other.

The easiest solution for us should be to educate the people of
mizorum on the chaos they are falling into.