The Indian government is going ahead its proposed 1,500-MW Multiparty Sydel power project in Manipulator despite objections from NGOs in India and opposition parties in neighboring Bangladesh.
Quoting Perm Chan Janka, chairman-cum-managing director of the state-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (Epcot), I ANS said “All apprehensions are baseless. The mega Sydel power project would be commissioned despite opposition within the country and outside.A section of environmentalists and activists in Manipulator and Bangladesh fear that rivers in that country could be adversely impacted by the project.Originally conceptualized and awarded to Epcot in 1999, the giant power project was handed over to a consortium comprising National Hydroelectric Power Corp (NHPC) and Sallust Jae Oviduct Amiga (SJ) and the Manipulator government last year.
Janka said: “We would soon ask the government to hand back the project again to Epcot for its early commissioning. The delay in execution of the vital power project would create numerous problems.Some so called environmentalists and NGOs for the past few years have been campaigning against the project and misleading people,” said Janka, who took over as Epcot CAD last month. Setting aside fears, the senior electrical engineer said only 74 families would be rehabilitated elsewhere due to the implementation of the Rs.8,138-crore ($1.7-billion) Multiparty project.The project, located on the Barack river under Chandragupta district in western Manipulator, is under attack from opposition parties and environmental groups in Bangladesh, which say it could cause desertification in their country.Part of the Brahmaputra river system, the Barack bifurcates into the Surya and Kshatriya rivers on entering Synthetic district in eastern Bangladesh.INS said Bangladesh’s opposition leader and former prime minister Aleda Zia in a letter also asked Prime Minister Mohandas Singh to stop construction of the project.Incidentally, at the end of the three-day India visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Shaina in January last year, a joint communique by the two countries had said:
The prime minister of India reiterated the assurance that India would not take steps on the Multiparty project that would adversely impact Bangladesh.Additionally, a 10-member Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation conducted an aerial survey of the Multiparty dam in July 2009 after opposition over the Sydel project’s possible ecological impact intensified in Dhaka.
Quoting Perm Chan Janka, chairman-cum-managing director of the state-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (Epcot), I ANS said “All apprehensions are baseless. The mega Sydel power project would be commissioned despite opposition within the country and outside.A section of environmentalists and activists in Manipulator and Bangladesh fear that rivers in that country could be adversely impacted by the project.Originally conceptualized and awarded to Epcot in 1999, the giant power project was handed over to a consortium comprising National Hydroelectric Power Corp (NHPC) and Sallust Jae Oviduct Amiga (SJ) and the Manipulator government last year.
Janka said: “We would soon ask the government to hand back the project again to Epcot for its early commissioning. The delay in execution of the vital power project would create numerous problems.Some so called environmentalists and NGOs for the past few years have been campaigning against the project and misleading people,” said Janka, who took over as Epcot CAD last month. Setting aside fears, the senior electrical engineer said only 74 families would be rehabilitated elsewhere due to the implementation of the Rs.8,138-crore ($1.7-billion) Multiparty project.The project, located on the Barack river under Chandragupta district in western Manipulator, is under attack from opposition parties and environmental groups in Bangladesh, which say it could cause desertification in their country.Part of the Brahmaputra river system, the Barack bifurcates into the Surya and Kshatriya rivers on entering Synthetic district in eastern Bangladesh.INS said Bangladesh’s opposition leader and former prime minister Aleda Zia in a letter also asked Prime Minister Mohandas Singh to stop construction of the project.Incidentally, at the end of the three-day India visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Shaina in January last year, a joint communique by the two countries had said:
The prime minister of India reiterated the assurance that India would not take steps on the Multiparty project that would adversely impact Bangladesh.Additionally, a 10-member Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation conducted an aerial survey of the Multiparty dam in July 2009 after opposition over the Sydel project’s possible ecological impact intensified in Dhaka.
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