Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
on february 22, 2007, clearance to the Tipaimukh dam project in Manipur was stalled for a second time because of lack of sufficient data submitted to the appraisal committee for the project's environmental impact assessment (eia). The Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects under the Union ministry …
Act 1; Scene 1: Churachandpur, Manipur: "Don't divide our people; don't take away our land; save our biodiversity; dam destroys our land; we are strongly opposed to the Tipaimukh dam'. Act 1; Scene 2: Tamenglong, Manipur: "Don't make us refugees; no land, no identity; our land is our life; Where …
as hectic preparations are in progress for the proposed visit of prime minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi to Manipur, The Action Committee against Tipaimukh Project (actip), a coalition of 29 ngos , has urged the prime minister Manmohan Singh to reconsider his decision to lay …
hailstorm in most farming areas of Manipur in October took farmers, eagerly awaiting the harvest, by surprise. It left standing crops damaged. Imphal East, Bishenpur, Chandel, Senapati, Tamenglong, Thoubal and Ukhrul districts reported hailstorms between October 21 to 24, 2006. Harvesting usually begins in October end. Andro, a township in …
function map() { var popurl="image/20061015/28-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=320,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } Octopus Too many arms, too many aims Work on the Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydel Project (tmhp) is yet to start. For the past five decades the Union government has been working on it. The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (neepco), the government agency entrusted …
To understand what the Tipaimukh project could bring to the state, one must put it in context. Imphal is in a valley surrounded by hills on four sides. In the valley the Meitei people are predominant. Legally, they do not have the right to purchase land in the hills. The …
The project is to come up in Churachandpur, a Hmar-dominated area. Some Hmar leaders are not completely unhappy with the idea, because they believe their community stands to gain. John Pulamte, Hmar Students' Association's president, says: "The Hmar community does not object completely as the people firmly believe that the …
What the Hmars gain on the swings, in Tamenglong district, the Zeilangrong Nagas lose on the roundabouts. The area stands to be submerged by the dam, besides being affected culturally. Manipur will lose 293.56 sq km to the reservoir. Much of the support for the dam comes from some leaders …
People in Imphal talk of the micro-climatic changes that the dam will bring and its impact on their famous orange groves; they talk of negotiating and fighting. The Naga people have held their own public hearings in several sub-divisions of Tamenglong condemning the project. The official public hearing under the …
Increased incidences of fluoride concentration in groundwater and its impact on human health, was initiated to determine groundwater fluoride concentration in East Imphal District of Manipur.
Four environmental activists sit with me in room 122 of Hotel Imphal. "How can we get information from the state?' one asks. Do they expect an answer because I work for a Delhi-based environmental fortnightly, I wonder. They have failed to get information from state agencies on an important infrastructure …
the Manipur government recently tabled the Manipur Loktak Lake (Protection) Bill, 2006, in the state assembly to protect the lake from degradation. The bill is likely be passed in the ongoing budget session. Together with this, the state government also sent the Planning Commission a Rs 400 crore-proposal for the …
Surely chunks of solid earth on which we stand cannot drift easily about the surface of a water body. But floating islands do indeed exist on six of the seven continents and sometimes in the oceans between them. These islands are kept buoyant by the light spongy tissues of certain …
Wild plants have exercised the culinary imagination of people in Manipur since yore. The state abounds in various species of Colacasia, wild peas, bamboo plants and Langenaria cineria. These plants are rich in nutrition and their shoots, fruits, leaves and corms are ingredients for a variety of Manipuri recipes. Amongst …
TEHRI AGAIN As the old Tehri town drowns in the water impounded by the Tehri dam, some way upstream another hydroelectric power project is making an unwelcome appearance. Work on a hydel project, located on the Bhilangana river, a tributary of the Bhagirathi, is being carried out with heavy protection
following strong protests, the Manipur government's ambitious plan to move its legislative assembly hall, secretariat, 60 legislator quarters, high court and the People Forum to a new site has been stalled. The Capital Project-Manipur's master plan is being reworked. The relocation sites comprised the Kairang Khong wetland in the sacred …
function map() { var popurl="files/images/20050515/34-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=620,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } 168 dams. 34,920 mw. That is the hydroelectric power potential in the northeast, as per the Union ministry of power. s lp is just one of them, but shows how subterfuge, dirty politicking, lobbying and trouble such a project can get mired in, …
The main objective of this study can be asserted as to assess the probable impacts, which are likely to be happened due to the operation of proposed Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Dam (Multipurpose) Project of India by storing, regulating, withdrawal or diversion of the Barak River flow on the northeast region …
the north-eastern states of Mizoram and Manipur have intensified their protest against the Rs 5,000 crore Tipaimukh hydro-electric dam, proposed to be constructed on River Barak at the tri-junction of Manipur, Mizoram and Assam. Bangladesh has already been opposing the project (see Down To Earth,
