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Dams
Tribals demand scrapping of proposed dam
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1993
TRIBALS from 23 villages in Udaipur district, citing the potential displacement of 12,000 people, are gearing up for protracted battle with the government to scrap the proposed Manasi Wakal dam, intended to supply drinking water to Udaipur.
Going back to the past for a better future
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
"WE ARE happy without government help for our agriculture. Our lands now yield thrice what they used to four years ago," says 36-year-old Jagdish Gujjar of Guwara Dewari, a village of 60 households in the green belt of the Sariska reserved forest in Rajasthan's semi-arid Alwar district.
Controversy follows Russian offer
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
THE TEHRI dam project (TDP) is back in news. Even as engineering experts and scientists reiterated building such a high dam in a seismically sensitive region is hazardous, an offer from a consortium of Russian and Uzbek companies to finance the project brought joy to its proponents.
Revitalised role forecast for people's movements
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1993
1992 has been a watershed year. Trends that were visible over the last few years came to a head, both globally and locally. At the global level, the events that preceded the Rio summit and took place at the meet were fascinating proofs that micro movements at the community, state, or even country levels, had few links with the debates, planning and policy formulation that are going on at the macro level.
World Bank to finance controversial dam
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1993
THE WORLD Bank has approved a $70 million loan to finance the 450-MW hydroelectric dam on Chile's biggest river, the Bio Bio.
The loan was sanctioned by the bank's International Finance Corp (IFC), which lends to the private sector, even before the Pangue dam's environmental impact assessment by the bank was complete. IFC also pre-empted a court ruling in a suit filed by environmentalists, contending the Pangue project is unconstitutional because it damages rights to property, life and a clean environment.
A valuable study of
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1993
WITH THE national rehabilitation policy on the anvil, this timely book raises important questions regarding humans displaced by development projects.
Dam of death
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1993
YUGOSLAV engineers are working desperately
to ease the pressure on
a damaged dam in
Montenegro, to prevent
the release of millions
of tonnes of toxic mining sludge into the
Danube and other
Balkan rivers. Senior
officials working on the
dam'say the impact
would be "disastrous as
it would poison the,
river, killing fish and other aquatic
life". The engineers have completed
a new support dam and are dredging another channel in the river
Tara as part of their efforts to avert
this ecological disaster.
The UN disaster relief agency in
Geneva has mobilised international
Twice ousted
Issue Date: Dec 31, 1992
TWICE-DISPOSSESSED Pong dam oustees have urged the Centre to sponsor tripartite talks between their representatives and the BJP governments of Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan to settle rehabilitation issues. At a Congress-organised rally recently, Union minister of state for planning Sukh Ram condemned the Rajasthan government's high-handed and unilateral amendment of the Oustees Rehabilitation Rules.
Hungary resents Slovak dam
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1992
THE BLUE Danube lost much of its magic when on August 1 Slovakia started dumping concrete blocks weighing several tonnes into the river. By October 20, these had narrowed the Danube from 400 metres to 160 metres. Slovakia was at the time given permission by the Danube Commission, the association of countries along the river that controls shipping, to close the river to traffic until November 3.
Controversial barrage
Issue Date: Oct 31, 1992
HUNGARY'S last ditch efforts to halt the Slovakian hydro-electric project failed with Slovakia continuing to divert the waters of the Danube, Europe's largest river, into an environmentally controversial barrage along their common border.
While the two heads of state agreed on setting up a joint commission to head off confrontation over the issue, the construction is reaching a point of no return. Slovakia plans to divert much of the river waters into a 25 km channel elevated upto 18 m around the surrounding plain. The dam will supply 10 per cent of Slovakia's energy needs.
