What is Tipaimukh project ?
Tipaimukh Dam is a proposed embankment dam on
the river Barak in Manipur state India. The purpose of the
dam is flood control and hydroelectric power generation. The project has led to
controversy between India and Bangladesh over water rights as well as
controversy with Manipuri people to be relocated by the reservoir.
What
is the Controversy regarding it ?
What is Bangladesh's Point?
2.
A team had come from bangladesh to
New Delhi which was led by Water Resource Minister of Bangladesh Abdur Razzak.
3.
The team visited Tipaimukh dam on
July 31, 2009.
- What
is India's Point?
1.
India says that this project would
regulate excess water, control floods in Sylhet district of Bangladesh, western
Manipur and southern Assam.
2.
The dam will open a new waterway from
Haldia port in West Bengal to northeast India via Bangladesh
3.
This dam will lead to the development
of two national highways - NH
53 and NH 150
- thus improving the connectivity among Assam, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.
4.
Water which will be used for
generating electricity will be released back into the river.
5.
India would not build any barrage or
structures for stopping water flowing downstream.
The following three organizations have also protested the dam.
- Citizens Concern for Dams and
Development (CCDD),
- Committee on Land and Natural
Resources (COLNAR)
- Action Against the Tipaimukh Dam
Project (ACTIP).
Environmental Aspect !!
Another is the environmental factor. The Tipaimukh area lies in an
ecologically sensitive and topographically fragile region. It falls under one
of the most seismically volatile regions on the planet. A major earthquake of
magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter Scale rocked Manipur-Myanmar border in the year August 6, 1988 at
the epicenter 240 km (150 mi) northeast of the dam site.
Important points about
River Barak !
- associated
with River Barak
- River Barak is a part of the Surma-Meghna River System
- River Barak in Assam is also proposed to be declared as
National Waterway-6 by Govt. of India and thereafter it will be developed
with infrastructure facilities for commercial operations.
- tributaries of river Barak
(Sonai River (Tuiral), Ghagra River,Katakhal River, Dhaleswari River,Jiri River, Chiri River, Madhura River,Jatinga River) - imp
city across River Barak - Sinclair
