Anti-Dam Organisation Asks Centre To Scrap MOAs
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 11,
November 2010
Subansiri Upper Basin Project Grievances and Redressal Committee (SUBPGRC) in a memorandum to Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh recently demanded the cancellation of all the MoAs and go for fresh agreements with due consideration of all the safety norms in implementation of dam projects.
In a statement today, the committee suspected vested motives and foul play in the MoA signing spree adopted by the state government in the recent past.
It said that had the government thought for welfare of the state and its people, it would have done better by going ahead with one or two projects in each river basin of the state on experimental basis and then later on gone ahead with more projects in phased manner. Read the full report here.
Source: Hindustan Times, Itanagar.
