Building of dams is justified within the nationwide curiosity, however individuals from the Narmada Valley to Uttarakhand have realised their harmful potential. Whereas the Socialist Get together (India) cares about growth, however not at the price of life, livelihood and nature. There are greater than 169 proposed dams in Arunachal Pradesh, which can exploit nature and pose a risk to the individuals.
It is very important level out that the dams in-built Arunachal Pradesh trigger floods within the decrease areas of Assam. Since Arunachal Pradesh is an earthquake-prone space and melting glaciers resulting from local weather change pose a risk to the individuals right here and the decrease areas of Assam, many new glacial lakes are being shaped within the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh together with hundreds of lakes already present.
China is constructing a 60,000 MW dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river on the Medog border in Tibet throughout Arunachal Pradesh. The Tsangpo turns into Siang because it enters Arunachal Pradesh. The rationale cited for constructing the 11,000 MW Higher Siang undertaking by the Nationwide Hydroelectric Company is that it’ll act as a reservoir to counter the results of potential lowered flows brought on by the Chinese language tremendous dam, which is thrice bigger than the biggest dam on the Yangtze River – the Three Gorges.
How can one dam counter one other dam on the identical river? If something, the Arunachal Pradesh dam will cut back the circulate of water into Assam, the place the river turns into the Brahmaputra, simply because the Chinese language dam will cut back the circulate into Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese language dam might be a catastrophe; the Higher Siang will double that catastrophe, not cut back it as Indian officers would love us to imagine.
In the meantime, the Dibang Valley, residence to the two,880 MW Dibang Multipurpose Dam and the three,097 MW Etalin Hydro Undertaking, faces rising dangers resulting from local weather change. The breach within the 60-metre Teesta dam in Sikkim on October 4, 2023 is the newest instance of how hydropower tasks are susceptible to accidents. We can’t ignore these classes.
In the meantime, builders like NHPC are deceptive individuals. Dam-induced floods in Assam have devastated individuals within the downstream areas. Assam flood reduction is just compensation for the losses. The one technique to forestall such a tragedy is to not construct dams upstream. As a substitute of constructing dams, the Indian authorities ought to focus its power on stopping China from constructing dams upstream.
