Mymensingh Rally Denounces Tipaimukh Dam Project Discourses
Arnab Sarkar :Mymensingh: 20 December.2006: The historic town of Mymensing ,120 kilometres from the capital city of Dhaka, standing beside Old Brahmaputra river, witnessed a protest rally today held at the heart of the city, the venue being the reputed educational institution, Mukul Niketan. The protest has been aimed at the Tipaimukh Dam project being implemented in the Manipur state of India, not far from north-eastern Bangladesh. The rally was participated by the leading citizens including the senior Bar personality Advocate Khalekuzzaman, senior educationist Professor Riazul Islam, women leader Ferous Helen,Munira Khatun, Lila Roy, Advocate Selim,Educationist Shafikul Haider Mukul and a host of people from different profession including hundreds of students. The rally was presided over by the Principal of Mukul Niketan Professor Amin Ahmed Chowdhury Ratan. The program moderated by Angikar Mymensingh chief Pradip Chakraborty and member Secretary Advocate Khurram. The speakers expresses their sheer indignation at the cruel and indecent approaches of the relevant authorities in India for going ahead with the Tipaimukh Dam project without the consent of the millions inhabiting in the basin area of the Barak/Meghna. The speakers termed the Tipaimukh Dam project being anti-people, anti development, anti-civilisation and anti-nature. The speakers questioned and criticised the very basic development paradigm working behind as the logic. They opined that all the projects across the globe must have to be nature-friendly. They feared that the Tipaimukh Mega Dam once commissioned will spell catastrophic disaster and in cases of earthquakes, the dam-storage water will act as sources of sunamilike disasters in at least 12 districts of the lower riparian Bangladesh. The rally was followed by symbolic postcard mailing program to the Indian Prime Minister. Development of the people,by the people,for the people. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Development in harmony with nature. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
