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Loktak project turns agricultural land into swamps
moneycontrol.com | Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:33 | Source : PTI
The Loktak hydro-electric power project, commissioned three decades back, has reached electricity to thousands, but robbed thousand others of their livelihood. The Loktak lake, which has to have water to the optimum, often causes flash flood in the agricultural land on its periphery, turning them into swamps unfit for cultivation.
The state government estimates that the Ithai barrage on Manipur river, constructed in 1979 as a part of the power project, has submerged 20,000 hectares of cultivable land while unofficial estimates peg the figure at as high as 83,000 hectares.
The only option for the thousands of poor farmers living around the lake, spread over 230 sq km area, is to switch over to fishing in the swamps, but that means huge additional investment.
Besides this, large tracts of land and permanent ''phumdies'' (floating biomass) are also temporarily flooded during the rainy season each year.
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