Too little to share
paddy farmers in Kerala's Alappuzha district have locked horns with the state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (ntpc) over the sharing of Achanakovil River water. The farmers of Veeyapuram, Haripad and Pallippad panchayats in the district's upper Kuttanad area recently held protests complaining that a check-dam built on the river at Chennithala to supply water for ntpc's Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Thermal Plant had reduced freshwater supply for agriculture. They threatened to destroy the dam. krishna prasad
paddy farmers in Kerala's Alappuzha district have locked horns with the state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (ntpc) over the sharing of Achanakovil River water. The farmers of Veeyapuram, Haripad and Pallippad panchayats in the district's upper Kuttanad area recently held protests complaining that a check-dam built on the river at Chennithala to supply water for ntpc's Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Thermal Plant had reduced freshwater supply for agriculture. They threatened to destroy the dam.
The farmers are expected to be further infuriated by an ntpc plan to enhance the plant's capacity to 2,150 mw . ntpc officials as well as the government are silent on the issue at present. But the question is how will the governemnt ensure water for a 2,150 mw plant when it is struggling to meet the requirements of a 350 mw plant? And what about the farmers' needs?
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