GUWAHATI: At a time when dam-induced flood has ravaged Assam’s Golaghat district in addition to in Kerala, the Union ministry of setting, wooded area and climate exchange (MoEFCC)’s status committee of the National Board for Wildlife (SCNBWL) will take the an important choice on September 7 whether to grant or reject clearance to the 1750 MW Demwe Lower hydroelectric undertaking proposed at the cultural heritage web site Parshuram Kund at the Lohit river in Arunachal Pradesh. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s ashes have been also immersed at Parshuram Kund.
NBWL is a statutory frame constituted below the Wildlife Protection Act. While NBWL is mandated to study wildlife-related matters, clearance from the frame is a must for projects which are proposed in and around nationwide parks and sanctuaries.
Assam’s Dibru Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere reserve is situated at the downstream of the undertaking.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in October 24, 2017 suspended the wooded area clearance granted to the undertaking involving diversion of over 1,24,000 timber within the vicinity of “sacred web site” Parshuram Kund. The NGT had also set aside the flora and fauna clearance in accordance with which the wooded area clearance was granted, and requested SCNBWL to rethink the problem when it comes to Demwe Lower hydroelectric undertaking and move appropriate orders within a length of six months.
Union culture minister Mahesh Sharma in 2014 raised worry about the have an effect on of the proposed dam on Parshuram Kund.
Subsequent to the NGT judgement, the subject was placed for recent approval of the SCNBWL.
In the 48 th SCNBWL assembly on March 27 it was advised that detailed research on hydrology and ecology for three seasons must be conducted a reputed and neutral medical, technical organizations sooner than in accordance clearance.
What has apprehensive the conservationists that the status committee headed by way of Union setting has requested for the report back to be submitted within three months, which means only a fast box discuss with may well be undertaken. The Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India made a initial presentation in accordance with a short box discuss with within the 49 th SCNBWL assembly in June this year and is most likely to present its ultimate findings within the upcoming assembly on September 7.
Officials at the situation of anonymity stated that no less than twelve months is needed for a detailed find out about on hydrology and ecology for three seasons.
“In mild of latest dam-induced floods within the Northeast and within the south, it is a subject of great worry that the SCNBWL might be inspecting the dam for clearance in accordance with a fast find out about and within the absence of a detailed downstream have an effect on and risk evaluate including at the Dibru Saikhowa National Park,” Bimal Gogoi, one of the most petitioners within the NGT case towards Demwe undertaking.
Gogoi, a resident of Golaghat district ravaged by way of the release of extra water from Doyang hydroelectric undertaking in Nagaland, stated three bridges including the Dhola-Sadiya bridge that got here up on Lohit river must also be a part of the downstream cumulative have an effect on find out about for Demwe undertaking.
NBWL is a statutory frame constituted below the Wildlife Protection Act. While NBWL is mandated to study wildlife-related matters, clearance from the frame is a must for projects which are proposed in and around nationwide parks and sanctuaries.
Assam’s Dibru Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere reserve is situated at the downstream of the undertaking.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in October 24, 2017 suspended the wooded area clearance granted to the undertaking involving diversion of over 1,24,000 timber within the vicinity of “sacred web site” Parshuram Kund. The NGT had also set aside the flora and fauna clearance in accordance with which the wooded area clearance was granted, and requested SCNBWL to rethink the problem when it comes to Demwe Lower hydroelectric undertaking and move appropriate orders within a length of six months.
Union culture minister Mahesh Sharma in 2014 raised worry about the have an effect on of the proposed dam on Parshuram Kund.
Subsequent to the NGT judgement, the subject was placed for recent approval of the SCNBWL.
In the 48 th SCNBWL assembly on March 27 it was advised that detailed research on hydrology and ecology for three seasons must be conducted a reputed and neutral medical, technical organizations sooner than in accordance clearance.
What has apprehensive the conservationists that the status committee headed by way of Union setting has requested for the report back to be submitted within three months, which means only a fast box discuss with may well be undertaken. The Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India made a initial presentation in accordance with a short box discuss with within the 49 th SCNBWL assembly in June this year and is most likely to present its ultimate findings within the upcoming assembly on September 7.
Officials at the situation of anonymity stated that no less than twelve months is needed for a detailed find out about on hydrology and ecology for three seasons.
“In mild of latest dam-induced floods within the Northeast and within the south, it is a subject of great worry that the SCNBWL might be inspecting the dam for clearance in accordance with a fast find out about and within the absence of a detailed downstream have an effect on and risk evaluate including at the Dibru Saikhowa National Park,” Bimal Gogoi, one of the most petitioners within the NGT case towards Demwe undertaking.
Gogoi, a resident of Golaghat district ravaged by way of the release of extra water from Doyang hydroelectric undertaking in Nagaland, stated three bridges including the Dhola-Sadiya bridge that got here up on Lohit river must also be a part of the downstream cumulative have an effect on find out about for Demwe undertaking.
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