I have read somewhere, either in this forum or in Friends of Assam, a person (probably Apurba Bora) from California has narrated his own first hand experience in respect of a smaller dam generating 25MW in Ca. Beside other problems, entire fauna of the down stream area vanished. It would take 30 years more to regenerate the fish population in that particular river though they have started the process right earnest. Another pitfall of a deterministic view, which in fact is romantic, that man can change, subjugate and put nature to its expditious benefits at will. Yes, a river desecrated cannot be undone easily. And here the desecration is out of greed and corruption. Hiu U:
One thing we have to remember that is special about dams is that a river desecrated with a dam is not easily undone. c-da On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:44 AM, uttam borthakur wrote: > Mahanta Da, > > Is not this obvious after the ever unfolding scams, which >are more discernible now due to competition in the media for viewership and >readership and due to loss of one party hegemony at the centre, that all >maladies ( naxalism, secessionist tendencies, terror, horse-tradings, >communalism, disparity in income-wealth distribution, ineptitude, building >mega-dams with myopic gain for short-term gain of a few business houses in >order to light up a waste-land of near future ,,,,,,,,) in India are innate >in its system, namely, crony capitalism, of which even the PM is a glorious >example being placed in the commanding heights by the World Bank /IMF rider to >implement the neo-liberal regime that began with the foreign reserve fiasco in >1991? Or do we need a compartmentalzed view here so that we can avert our >interested eyes from the Pandora's Box in order to avoid conflict of interest >somewhere down the line? > > > Uttam Kumar Borthakur Uttam Kumar Borthakur _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
