© 2023 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar
The destruction of nature in Manipur is captured in The Times of India,The Hindu and Deccan Herald as revealed by a study of the ongoing tragedy.
Re: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/despite-manipur-governments-claims-bunkers-continue-to-function-in-both-hills-and-valley/article67143111.ece
On the basis of published reports (See References) it is possible to establish the destruction of Manipur caused by both Central and State governments of all hues over the past century. That means destruction of valley and hill ecology resulting in losses to the locals of local fish and other food like vegetarian items, fruits and meat, and loss of diversity and water resources like natural free flowing rivers and ill conceived dams creating destruction of floats of food bearing vegetation and soil.The end result is deprivation of both hill and valley people of their livelihood. The governments must apply the precautionary principle and stop further destructive development of Manipur, sit across the table with the Manipuris and set right the wrongs done to the satisfaction of all living beings. They must once again get back their natural surroundings so they can suck enough negentropy from the earth to live in health and not just absence of disease like the pandemic Covid 19.
Reference: Jaya Thakur. 2020. The Ithai Barrage of Manipur: To Decommission or Not. ORF Issue Brief No. 364, 20 May 2020. Observer Research Foundation.
Re: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/with-the-delhi-services-bill-out-of-the-way-opposition-and-government-in-no-holds-barred-battle-in-the-rajya-sabha/article67172065.ece
It is painful, no comments. The parliament has failed to discuss the root cause of the Manipur ongoing tragedy, centre and state sponsored for the past many decades: total destruction of nature, which includes the human beings. See for starters Jaya Thakur. 2020. The Ithai Barrage of Manipur: To Decommission or Not. ORF Issue Brief No. 364, 20 May 2020. Observer Research Foundation.
And see this:
Manipur tribals urge PM to save their village Guwahati: July 5, 2015, DHNS: A bridge in Chadong village of Ukhrul district in Manipur, inhabited by the Thunkul Nagas, has been submerged for almost a month by the rising waters of the Mapithel dam of the Thoubal Multipurpose Project. DEEPAK OINAM *Chadong village, inhabited by the Thunkul Nagas in Ukhrul district of Manipur has been submerged for almost a month by the waters of the Mapithel dam of the Thoubal Multipurpose Project. * After repeated attempts of the villagers to pursue the Manipur government to handle the artificial flood around the village failed to draw a solution to the crisis, the United Naga Council (UNC), the powerful apex body of the Nagas living in Manipur has sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately take action and save the submerged village. In its memorandum, UNC has urged Modi to set up an expert committee to review the project and also immediately ask the Okram Ibobi Singh-led Manipur government to open the diversion channel of the dam that is now closed to release the rising waters. If its demands are not met, the UNC plans to launch a major anti-dam stir in Manipur, sources added. Meanwhile in Chadong village, life is a mess for the villagers, they are dependent on canoes for transportation. Almost a month back, the water level had been alarmingly rising leaving the village bridge completely inundated. It was in 1993 that the Chadong villagers signed an agreement with the Manipur government that they will allow the dam to operate and they would be given complete compensation. However, 800 villagers till date are yet to receive full compensation. The state government was supposed to ensure fair compensation and rehabilitation to the dam-affected villagers through the appointment of an expert review committee, which was meant to develop a state rehabilitation and resettlement policy. The Mapithel dam was approved by the Centre way back in 1980 and the constructions started in 1989.The dam would submerge about 1,215 hectares of land. The river water was supposed to be used for power generation and downstream irrigation. Even though the project lacks the mandatory forest clearance, and a case on the same issue is pending at the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the local villagers say that the Manipur government started operating the dam from last February. With the onset of the monsoon, water level in the area has increased and large chunk of agricultural lands have been submerged, leaving the villagers homeless. DH?News Service
Comment rashokkumar • a few seconds ago The Trojan Horse of self destructive useless modern civilization(mc) has penetrated every nook and corner of the world to create extinction. Read and spread knowledge regarding the evil nature of the glaring lacuna of dams in meeting the water needs of mc. See Keerti Ramachandra. 2014. A Dirge for the Dammed, the noble and true english translation of the Marathi true story Jhadajhadti by Vishwas Patil(1992).
The Thoubal Ecological Destruction,Manipur
If all 1215 ha is assumed under forests,1215 ha of forests is 1215x10^4 square meters at 100 kg per square meter dry biomass density(1) which is 1215000 cubic meters of water per day not transpired or groundwaters lost of 443475000 cubic meters per year! The facts about the dam: Mapithel Dam will have a gross storage capacity of 176.38 Million Cubic Meters.The dam is Homogeneous Earth Filled and has a length of 1074 meters and is 66 meter high! Thus 4434.75 million cubic meters(MCM) of groundwaters recharging lost for 176.38 MCM by Mapithel! If we take 595 ha of forests, the groundwater charging lost is 217175000 cubic meters or 217.175 MCM lost against 176.38 MCM provided by Mapithel stupidity with permanent forest cover lost! And this dam will contribute to the extinction consequences of the World's dams. Reforest Mother Earth to Live!
What are the mystery eruptions? They are the manifestations of the evil forces of world dam dynamics:the extinction consequences of the world’s dams experienced in Manipur:
Mysterious eruptions in Manipur Ratnadip Choudhury, Guwahati, July 4, 2015, DHNS: * A remote village in Ukhrul district of Manipur is burning midnight oil to keep vigil on an unremitting surge of smoke and ashes from a neighbouring hill which they presume to be volcanic eruptions. * While the government has sounded an alert in the area, panic stricken villagers are leaving for safer places. According to sources, for the past one week, unprecedented surge of smoke and ashes started erupting out of a swamp atop a hill near the Old Wahong village in Ukhrul district of Manipur, neighbouring Myanmar. The locals informed the district authorities that a crater has been formed in the swamp and that it was gradually expanding. Gaseous smokes are erupting out of several holes in the crater, sources further added. “We have got the report of the eruptions. This incident has created panic in the area. We have sent civil authorities and also security forces have been alerted. We are keeping a watch. Proper investigations would reveal if it is a volcanic eruption or not,” said Modak Hrisheekesh Arvind, the District Commissioner of Ukhrul district. The village is no less then 150 km away from state capital Imphal. Meanwhile, the Sub-Divisional Officer of Jessami has been asked to sent a preliminary report and take necessary precautions. Source added that the villagers, who are mostly farmers engaged in Jhum (Shifting Cultivation) are reportedly moving to safer place. Every day hundreds of locals from other neighbouring area are hiking the hill to get a glimpse of the eruptions. A team of Manipur University’s Earth Sciences Department will visit the site on July 5 to start investigations. In 2013, a mud volcano erupted at the New Tusom village in Ukhrul close to the Indo-Myanmar border due to the shifting of tectonic plates. Comment rashokkumar If you study this event in an all embracing perspective as would be with one who has despecialised one's vision, you may apply the precautionary principle and stop modern civilization: in a practical way so that security of life is brought to an acceptable level of risk from the terrible self destruction by modern civilization. My measurements using earthquake data suggest that the phenomenon being observed is due to the extremes of surges applied by the World's dams from one instant to the next. There was wild swing in the level of Ukhrul in Manipur during the Lamjung earthquake in Nepal on April 25, 2015: The level dropped by 5.62 cm in 8 minutes at the rate of -10.31 m/d at an acceleration of -1900 m/d/d, the negative sign standing for sinking. This was during the dry season. But in the monsoon 2015 when the world dam levels were going up, the sinking was even more severe with a crater being observed and smoke and ash coming out. My measurements show that the swing in level was during the 6.4 MM magnitude earthquake on July 3, 2015 which occurred at Southern Xinjiang: the level at Ukhrul registered a drop of 28 cm in 23 to 24 secs at a rate of change of -1036 m/d at an acceleration of 3.82 million meters/day/day! The world's dams during the monsoon are rapidly increasing in content and pushing up ashes and smoke from down under as the pathala(the underworld!) was rapidly reached. The designs of modern civilization are of unacceptable security for life and must be abandoned. Mahatma Gandhi said of this civilization in 1908: Given enough time modern civilization will destroy itself. Wake up citizens and decide to come together and act in harmony with nature.
Mysterious eruptions in Manipur Ratnadip Choudhury, Guwahati, July 4, 2015, DHNS: * A remote village in Ukhrul district of Manipur is burning midnight oil to keep vigil on an unremitting surge of smoke and ashes from a neighbouring hill which they presume to be volcanic eruptions. * While the government has sounded an alert in the area, panic stricken villagers are leaving for safer places. According to sources, for the past one week, unprecedented surge of smoke and ashes started erupting out of a swamp atop a hill near the Old Wahong village in Ukhrul district of Manipur, neighbouring Myanmar. The locals informed the district authorities that a crater has been formed in the swamp and that it was gradually expanding. Gaseous smokes are erupting out of several holes in the crater, sources further added. “We have got the report of the eruptions. This incident has created panic in the area. We have sent civil authorities and also security forces have been alerted. We are keeping a watch. Proper investigations would reveal if it is a volcanic eruption or not,” said Modak Hrisheekesh Arvind, the District Commissioner of Ukhrul district. The village is no less then 150 km away from state capital Imphal. Meanwhile, the Sub-Divisional Officer of Jessami has been asked to sent a preliminary report and take necessary precautions. Source added that the villagers, who are mostly farmers engaged in Jhum (Shifting Cultivation) are reportedly moving to safer place. Every day hundreds of locals from other neighbouring area are hiking the hill to get a glimpse of the eruptions. A team of Manipur University’s Earth Sciences Department will visit the site on July 5 to start investigations. In 2013, a mud volcano erupted at the New Tusom village in Ukhrul close to the Indo-Myanmar border due to the shifting of tectonic plates. Comment rashokkumar If you study this event in an all embracing perspective as would be with one who has despecialised one's vision, you may apply the precautionary principle and stop modern civilization: in a practical way so that security of life is brought to an acceptable level of risk from the terrible self destruction by modern civilization. My measurements using earthquake data suggest that the phenomenon being observed is due to the extremes of surges applied by the World's dams from one instant to the next. There was wild swing in the level of Ukhrul in Manipur during the Lamjung earthquake in Nepal on April 25, 2015: The level dropped by 5.62 cm in 8 minutes at the rate of -10.31 m/d at an acceleration of -1900 m/d/d, the negative sign standing for sinking. This was during the dry season. But in the monsoon 2015 when the world dam levels were going up, the sinking was even more severe with a crater being observed and smoke and ash coming out. My measurements show that the swing in level was during the 6.4 MM magnitude earthquake on July 3, 2015 which occurred at Southern Xinjiang: the level at Ukhrul registered a drop of 28 cm in 23 to 24 secs at a rate of change of -1036 m/d at an acceleration of 3.82 million meters/day/day! The world's dams during the monsoon are rapidly increasing in content and pushing up ashes and smoke from down under as the pathala(the underworld!) was rapidly reached. The designs of modern civilization are of unacceptable security for life and must be abandoned. Mahatma Gandhi said of this civilization in 1908: Given enough time modern civilization will destroy itself. Wake up citizens and decide to come together and act in harmony with nature.
References
1. Dr. S. N. Rai.1983.Standing Biomass and Net Primary Productivity of Tropical Rainforests of Karnataka.
2. Government of India. Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Department of Agriculture). 1976. Forest Resources of Manipur: Preinvestment Survey of Forest Resources. Dehra Dun.PDF.
3. Jaya Thakur. 2020. The Ithai Barrage of Manipur: To Decommission or Not. ORF Issue Brief No. 364, 20 May 2020. Observer Research Foundation.
4. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2015. predicting earthquakes: The science of dams causing earthquakes and climate change.blogspot.
Link:https://predictingquakes.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-science-of-dams-causing-earthquakes.html?m=1
5. Notes. Two articles one on Hawaii fires (8)and the other on adaptation to climate change(7) illustrate well the need to instantly change our way of life. That is from the way of extinction to a way which enables life to be restored to one where we can live in a state of health and not just absence of disease. People are prima facie believing that extinction means attaining moksh and so they are blindly racing to be among the top developed set of nations in the sense of becoming extinct rather than living! Modern civilization is the root cause of this Anthropocene brutality which renders humans to fossil records. World dam dynamics, not ghgs are responsible for 92 of climate change. So remove the dams! See Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2023. Reforest Mother Earth to Live: Dams must be removed and the hard work to create forests analogous to the areas must be undertaken.blogspot.
6. For a sense of the powdering of the Himalayas see
ManipurImphalTamenglongRoadEIKA47341-002-eia-4_230812_143155.pdf
Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ybEwiD_WHAYQnmhLEbj_-rJZG2Unl5qi/view?usp=drivesdk
7. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/developing-contemporary-india/climate-change-adaptation-is-the-need-of-the-hour/?val=3728&comments=show
8.https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/several-people-die-in-maui-wildfires-residents-had-little-warning-before-wildfires-overtook-a-town/article67183907.ece
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Very timely. But ecological destruction wrought by an ill conceived half baked exploitive infinite entropy aimed policy of the central and state governments of all hues and continuing today will powder beautiful Manipur into a barren dustbowl. See Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2023: Reforest Mother Earth to Live: Parliament fails to save Manipur.blogspot.
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