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The northeast is a ticking time bomb of disaster : Expert
Times of India | Naresh Mitra | TNN | Jun 21, 2013, 12.39 PM IST
The enormity of the recent rain and floods disaster in Uttarakhand has provided northeast anti-dam activists grounds to pitch their demand for stopping all large dams to avoid similar devastating natural calamities in the region. Activists and experts here expressed fear that an Uttarkhand-like disaster is already in the making in the NE with over 100 large dams planned here.
The NE has been experiencing flash floods and landslides every monsoon and experts are worried that climate change and progressive ecological disturbances due to large-scale dam construction would only aggravate the hazards in future.
"Geologically and seismologically, the region is a time bomb of disaster. It's continuously ticking. Through large-scale dam construction and developmental activities, we are only accelerating the bomb, pushing the region towards an Uttarakhand-like disaster," said Partha J Das, head of water, climate and hazard (WATCH) programme of Aaranyak (a biodiversity conservation NGO)
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