Fundamental Questions:
Govt's flood forecasting:
Under what authority does GOVT forecasts?
Is GOVT bound to be correct,timely and help-relief-rendering-compensating?
Which GOVT--State/Central? As per "Our Sacred Constitution -framed by FF's"
What if they turn around and say "None of my jobs-Mate,I am busy GOVTing"
And National Embankment Policy: TO-:-(-60 years of Planned Disaster for FREE
INDIA)
deposit all of eroded Himalayas on the Bottom of Rivers
not allow Alluvium to reach the farmlands on both banks
thereby fast depleting humus in its entire valley
thereby making it essential to use heavier and heavier doses of
NPK+micronutrients
thereby enriching oil/gas cos supplying inputs to manufacture Ureabut having no
source of P&K minerals in whole of India starving all agriculture of
N,K,microelements
thereby making India depend more and more on huge imports of
Oil/Gas/fertilizers
AND as the riverbeds get more and more blocked-floods disaster increase year on
year
and as the Nation raises the Embankments yet higher-the floods stay locked
longer++
and people lose everything they saved-including health,cattle,lives-- every
year more++
But Bharat Claims ALMOST-SUPER-POWER and MAHAAN status
LONG LIVE NATIONAL EMBANKMENTS !!!
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:11
+0530Subject: Re: [WaterWatch] Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help?
It would be an interesting research project for the academia to study the
impact of views expressed in various forum including this one, in changing the
situation.So far what we have noticed is our ruling class does not care for
public opinion and gets the media manipulated conveniently.King does no wrong.
Piyush C.Sharma
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From: Chan Mahanta
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WaterWatch] Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help?
>We can only vent our feelings in forums like this but can not do anything to
>change the situation.
*** Absolutely NOT TRUE!
I know it is easy for me to say. But each one of us can and ought be doing
something about it. Question is HOW?
Let us be analytical. Keep asking the questions until we can pin down WHY it
happens. And once we get to the root cause/s, start doing something about it.
Mind you, it will need some commitment--on the part of the intelligentsia,
which has been absent from its governance.
Elections are not the be-all and end-all of democratic governance. It is
merely a process for selecting a crew to run the ship of state. But if the
electors do that on the basis of "Cast your vote--vote your caste", or
mis-information, dis-information and no-information on ISSUES that so affect
their lives, the chances of your getting a slate of representatives even barely
competent to govern is about slim to none. Such a 'democratic' government is
useful only to wave at the developed world who go ga-ga over the 'successes' of
Indian democracy. But we know a whole lot better, don't we?
Now then, can this democratically elected 'crew' take the ship of state
anywhere if the sails are torn, the mast is down, the hull is leaky and the
sailors on duty drunk? That is the condition that defines Indian INSTITUTIONS
of government--which have been existing ONLY on paper, dysfunctional to the
core. Am I exaggerating? You tell us.
But WHO will change things?
A simple answer would be : An informed polity. Not the uninformed, not the
disenfranchised, not those tottering at the brink of survival. Nor would the
ESTABLISHMENT who profits handsomely for the dysfunctional state, and its
REVERSE ROBIN-HOODISM of stealing from the many to enrich a few, even if only
by default.
So, I would submit, the only way to take government BACK from the
non-performers and scoundrels and give it back to the people-- if it ever was
theirs -- will be to begin at the beginning: Radical reforms with the system of
elections, political parties and its formations, radically reforming the
institutions of state, re-writing the Constitution with clear separation of
powers between lawmaking, administration and the judiciary--- so on and so
forth. I can go on and on. If you wish, I will be even be pleased to.
Question is whether Indian intelligentsia really cares, and if it does, whether
it can muster the courage and has the wherewithal to, at long last, begin to
do its share for their collective well-being.
But having watched the scene in desperation for decades, I am NOT about to hold
my breath!
cm
At 4:01 PM +0530 8/28/07, Piyush Sharma wrote:
I agree with the note in general. The last two paragraphs, i.e." General
feeling is....have more than doubled" and "Victims of flood.... are being
built"are apt and factual statements. The pity is that our "ruling class" are
immune to public opinion. They do not have time to ponder over public interest
as they are too busy with self interest. Increasing GDP does not reflect the
general well being of the '"ruled class ".
My own house was flooded by 3 ft.deep water in the rooms due to the flooded
Nala( Natural rain water drain) on August 14. 2006. We are still trying to
recover from the physical and mental set back. Surely more funds will be
allotted by the Government to our Civic Bodies for urban Renewal out of which
a trickle might be utilized for actual works that too substandard. We are
always at the receiving end without proper "power connection".We can only vent
our feelings in forums like this but can not do anything to change the
situation.
Piyush C.Sharma
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:24 AM
Subject: [WaterWatch] Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help?
Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help?Flood forecasting has been
recognized as one of the most important, reliable and cost-effective
non-structural measures for flood management.Central Water Commission, Ministry
of Water Resources has set up a network of forecasting stations covering all
important flood prone interstate rivers.The forecasts issued by these stations
are used to alert the Public and to enable the administrative and engineering
agencies of the States/UT's to take appropriate measures.Central Water
Commission started flood-forecasting services in 1958 with the setting up of
its first forecasting station on Yamuna at Delhi Railway Bridge.The website of
Ministry of Water Resources claims that it has at present a vast network of 945
hydrological observation stations and issues level forecast for 145 sites and
inflow forecasts of 28 dam barrage sites located on main rivers.It also says
that "The web site provides latest forecasts issued by the divisions of CWC."
but if one visits it one only find one message: "The page cannot be
found".Hundreds of people are reported to have lost their lives and many more
lost everything they owned when the waters rose in North Bihar.For people
across 300 villages in Koshi, flood and waterlogging is a yearlong problems
because the very embankments that are meant to stop the flood have stopped it
for good letting water stagnate.General feeling is that it is the contractors,
politicians and bureaucrats who stand to gain from the projects set up to build
and maintain these embankments. Over several decades thousands of kilometers of
embankments have been built but flood prone areas in have more than
doubled.Victims of flood do not have any voice in whose name newer and bigger
embankments are being built.
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