Mikeda,
When someone armtwists (forces or threatens with dire
consequences) its general definition would be "goons".
That's what the NBA has done reportedly. Just as when
the government does not give the proper rehab it would
be called incompetence or corruption.
Anything else about Narmada Valley
Rajib
--- mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Also lately there has been Ga Ga by H.N.Das about the
genius of a Gujarat CM named Modi (remember the Best
BAkery ?) managing every drop of water!
And Ram sent us paper trails to read up from:
And Rajib Das calling NBA " Goons" for stopping
drowned -out people accepting Modi's easy money and
getting "LOST".
Have you found out (The Simple Truth) ? What all this
hullabaloo is about-these last 15 years?
If you have not, try this!
Narmada has to flow to sea via Guj.--Dam or NOT.
+90m did not" work at all"for Modi -as per
H.N.Das_28 Apr. AT. Should have !
So he wants +121m or threatens 51 hr. Fast and
"Gujarat will burn".
Supreme Court works overnight, PM stops all work to
listen Guj MP's out -peace is restored.
Next week Baroda Burns.Delhi appeals to SC to
stop further Dargah Demolitions.
Now ask yourself this simple Q_. If he is that clever,
why can't +90 m be Adequate?
Simple Engineering !
Delhi is scared of putting its foot down and sacking
Modi for rabble rousing.
Maybe Delhi doesn't know the siimple truth. As they
say "Common Sense is not very common".
1 week's GPS survey by a small team can assess the
total landloss and human disruption in Madhya Pradesh
and Maharashtra if Dam is raised to 122m.
mm
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From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] The Assam Tribune Editorial: A
water management plan forAsom
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 05:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
You are so right. In most of these plans (?) published
in the Assam newspapers, I cannot figure out the plan
even after reading twice. I am relieved to find that I
am not the only one.
Do these authors write because they think they can
fool the readers with numbers and names? I get upset
when my time gets wasted in trying to find something
useful.
Dilip
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Searched all over-but could not see THE PLAN.
mm
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From: "Rini Kakati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Assam] The Assam Tribune
Editorial: A water management plan forAsom
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 10:30:03 +0000
Guwahati, Monday, May 8, 2006
EDITORIAL
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A water management plan for Asom
H N Das Asom has enormous water resources in the
Brahmaputra and the other rivers. Again, most areas
have a very high ground water table. If water
management is proper both at the macro and the micro
levels the per capita income can be increased
tremendously through a revolution in agriculture,
horticulture, floriculture and agro industries and
improvement in health and sanitation.
Water has played the
most important role in the nurturing of human
civilisation in different parts of the earth.
Traditionally agranian civilisations have come up in
the river valleys only. The Sumerian and the
Babylonian civilisations were nurtured by the waters
of the Euphrates and the Tigris rovers. The Egyptian
civilisation was sustained by the Nile river. In
India, different civilisations have flourished in the
valleys of the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and other
smaller rivers.
Estimation of experts show that out of the total water
resources of the earth only 3 per cent is fresh water
out of which again less than 0.03 per cent is
accessible to mankind. That is why there are so many
deserts and drought affected areas in different
continents. In India, we have only 2 per cent of the
landmass and 4 per cent of the fresh water available
in the planet. With such scarce resources, India has
to provide water for 16 per cent of the worlds
population and nearly 20 per cent of the worlds
cattle. This mismatch has resulted in the water
problem of India assuming such critical proportions.
Unless proper actions are taken from now onwards,
great water scarcity will be felt all over the country
and particularly, in the drought prone States.
Water is required for many purposes, the most
important being for drinking. In most water scarce
areas women serve as water carriers. In some States
such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan even today a
large number of women are engaged in drawing water
from distant places. Many of them spend a major
portion of their time during each day for this
purpose.
Water is also required for irrigation. In most
advanced countries elaborate arrangements exist for
different types of irrigation systems for a variety of
crops. According to the well known historian J M
Roberts, the Romans were the greatest engineers yet
to set about exending the human exploitation of the
material world. Not for centuries was anything of such
comparable scale and utility again to be built in
Europe. (History of the World). Roberts has further
stated that after nineteen centuries, the water
supply of the Spanish city of Segovua is still carried
to it by this Roman aqueduct, (as illustrated by a
photograph in Roberts book) borne by 128 arches which
raise the water channel to a hundred feet above ground
at its highest point. Similar engineering marvels were
created a few centuries later by the Chola kings of
South India. They spent a considerable lot of money on
public works including extensive irrigation system.
They built and diverted river water into smaller
channels. They also built aqueducts, viaducts, tanks
and wells for irrigation purposes. A few of their
works have survived and are even now in use. Some have
been show-cases for tourism purposes.
In the modern times dams, canals, piplelines and
irrigation channels have been built along with urban
water supply works in different parts of the world.
Some of the dams are of huge proportions. In the
United States of America very big dams have been built
such as the Grand Coulee on the Columbia river. A
similar dam has been built at Aswan on the Nile river
in Egypt. Now, the Three Gorges Dam on the river
Yangtze in China will dwarf all these and will become
the biggest hydro-electric, navigational and
irrigation works in the world.
In post-independence India, importance has been given
to irrigation in some of the States. Bhakra-Nangal has
been built. The Damodar Valley Corporation has been
started in the model of the Tennessee Valley Authority
of USA. Many more dams and irrigation systems have
been built in different States. The Green Revolution
was made possible mainly through augmentation of
irrigation facilities. However, the needs of neither
water nor irrigation water have been fully satisfied
as yet.
The most serious attention has been given to water
management in recent times by the State of Gujarat.
There they have brought about a water revolution in
the past few years. (This has been earlier described
in detail in my article in the issue of The Assam
Tribune dated April 28)
Unlike Gujarat, in Asom nature has provided enormous
resources in the Brahmaputra river and its
tributaries, in the Barak river and in the high ground
water table. However, indadequacy of irrigation
facilities has been one of the main causes of low
production and productivity of agricultural crops
which again results in deficit in foodgrains
availability. Only 49.48 per cent of the net area is
sown more than once. The annual foodgrains production
of 40.34 lakh tonnes and the oilseed production of
1.53 lakh tonnes (both the figures relate to 2003-04)
is hardly enough. Large quantities of foodgrains have
to be imported from outside in order to feed the
growing population of about 3 crores (the 2002 census
figure was 2.66 crores) as has been shown by the LC
Jain Committee and the
Committee on Fiscal Reforms. It is therefore,
important that proper attention is given to irrigation
urgently.But water management has been faulty in the
past. There is a lot of ad hocism. There is no
holistic approach or comprehensive plan. For example,
in regard to flood and erosion the structural measures
taken so far have not been able to fully solve
problem. The brahmaputra Board has turned out to be a
white elephant, almost redundant. Its master plans,
prepared over two decades and at exhorbitant cost,
have not found acceptance. The Government of Asom got
a Feasibility Report on Assam Integrated Flood
Management and Erosion Mitigation Project prepared in
February, 2006 which if implemented, it is claimed,
will contribute to invigoration of actually depressed
agricultural production activities, enhancement of
quality of life among rural people and giving an
impetus for improvement of local government bodies
services to local community. The recommendations in
this
latest report needs immediate examination.
Irrigation was neglected in the past hoping that rain
water and surface water would take care of moisture
requirement for agriculture in the rabi season. Only
11.26 lakh hectares of land is irrigated through
government irrigation facilities according to the
Economic Survey of Assam, 2004-05 against a total
cropped area of 40.87 lakh hectares. This is too
small. A bold attempt was made in 1999 when the
Samriddha Krishak Yojana was launched to sink 1,00,000
shallow tube to irrigate 2,00,000 hectares of land.
But many of the STWs went into disuse next year itself
and the project failed to usher in the desired
results. The production of foodgrains which had gone
up to 40.23 lakh tonnes in 2001-02 declined to 38.94
lakh tonnes in 2002-03. However, this project had
created additional employment for 1.89.000 people. It
is necessary that the project is revived and revamped
urgently before all the STWs and pipelines are
rusted.
According to the Economic Survey of India for 2005-06
only 56.8 per cent of rural households, 70.4 per cent
of urban households and 58.8 per cent of total
households in Asom have access to safe drinking water
against the all India figures of 73.2, 90 and 77.9 per
cent, respectively. This is another area where serious
attention is necessary. Now that large have been
provided in the Union Budget for 2006-07 for water
Asom should be able to draw its share and improve the
supply of water for drinking and sanitation.
A look at the changing profile of per capita income of
Asom at constant 1993-94 prices will show that while
it increased by a minuscule 0.4 per cent in 1994-05,
0.4 per cent in 1995-96, 0.6 per cent in 1996-97 and
0.1 per cent in 1997-98 it fell to the nadir by ()
2.3 per cent in 1998-99. Then the change came. In
1999-20000 it rose by 2.1 per cent, in 20000-01 by 2.7
per cent, in 2002-02 by 2.1 per cent and in 2002-03 by
2.6 per cent. It had
a spurt of 4.8 per cent in 2003-04. In 2004-05 the
figure has gone above 6 per cent. If we wish to
increase the per capita incomne further in order to
establish equivalence with the all India average one
of the critical inputs into the development process
will be water.
Asom has enormous water resources in the Brahmaputra
and the other rivers. Again, most areas have a very
high ground water table. If water management is proper
both at the macro and the micro levels the per capita
income can be increased tremendously through a
revolution in agriculture, horticulture, floriculture
and agro industries and improvement in health and
sanitation. Substantial employment can also be created
in input supply, production, distribution, maintenance
of structural works and machineries and most
importantly in marketing.
(The writer was Chief Secretary, Asom during
1990-95)
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