I have a very strong feeling that the whole Interlinking Project is a gimmick with no seriousness in it. It is only aimed at diverting the attention of the prople from the issues facing them. Now for all the problems like irrigation, floods, waterlogging, rehabilitation, the conflicts of this side and that side, lower and upper riparians, malfunctioning of the projects, non-implementation of the promises, costs and so on., it is " Surf Excel Hai Naa" type of solution.
I remember, we used to ask politicians and engineers that if there were problems in damming the Kosi or the Gandak, they used to say that these dams are held up because Nepal has to agree. And when we repeated the question by asking , how about North East? There nobody's permission is needed, why not do it there? There was no answer. That is because there are so many things that the Governments do not want to debate or commit.Thye simply want to engage people in unproductive debates and play politics with it. Will write again on this subject. Dinesh Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Even I am a bit surprised by the NE's exclusion from this 'summit', > mainly > because I thought people like Suresh Prabhu and his masters would have > become a tad bit more sensitized to the NE's concerns by now. I was > ready > to trust Prabhu's public assurances that nothing would be done about > diverting Assam waters without the approval of its people. > > It merely underscores Delhi's imperial attitudes. > > The other explanation could be, that like I explained earlier, the > Brahmaputra and /or Manas damming and linking with the Kosi in Bihar > is > such a harebrained propsal, that finally it is beginning to sink in, > and > therefore the non-invitation of the NE to the 'summit'. That could > actually > be a good sign. > > > cm > > > > > River-linking meet sans NE representative > By A Staff Reporter > GUWAHATI, Oct 14 - A high-level daylong seminar on inter-linking of > rivers > billed as "First National Media Summit on Interlinking of Rivers: > Prospects > and Challenges" was held at New Delhi today where not a single > representative from this land of the mighty Brahmaputra river was > invited. > The Union Ministry of Water Resources sponsored the seminar at HUDCO > Bhawan > at Habitat Centre in the national capital, which was organised by > Association of Integrated Social Transformation and Chronicle Society > of > India for Education and Academic Research, amongst others. > > The All Assam Students Union (AASU) which has taken a strong stand > against > the proposed river-linking project of the Government of India as the > project aims at exploiting the huge pool of water resources of > Brahmaputra > at the expense of Assam, has alleged that it was seminar organised by > the > Government of India engaging some NGOs. > > The AASU Adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya told this newspaper that as > the > organisers failed to invite a single representative from Assam or the > entire North East to this high-level seminar, it once again exposed > the > indifferent attitude of the BJP-led Government at the Centre towards > North > East. He said as 50 per cent of the total pool of water resources in > the > country was from the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, it was outrageous to > learn > that not a single person was invited to the seminar from Assam or the > North > East. "It once again exposed the design of the Centre to exploit the > water > resources of Brahmaputra river without caring to consider the views of > the > people of the State or the region. For the Centre the eastern boundary > of > the country still ends at Kolkata and the North-east is continued to > be > treated as a colony for the purpose of exploiting its natural > resources. > > The AASU leader who is now in New Delhi to attend the next round of > discussion of the tripartite sub-committee on Assam Accord, informed > that > the seminar was attended by a battery of prominent personalities and > experts including several BJP leaders and the Chairman of the > Government > of India task force on the rivers interlinking project, Suresh Prabhu. > > > > ------------------------------------------------- Click here to find your dream partner! Know more at http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/partner/sify.html Sify Power mail- a Premium Service from Sify Mail! know more at http://mail.sify.com _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
