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Despite efforts to assuage fear Maphou villagers decline to return home
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 03 2015:
Maphou villagers are still staying at relief camps even after IFCD officials assured them of no immediate danger from the dam.
A team of media persons visited Maphou dam today to determine and assess the extent of damage in the dam.
IFCD, Thoubal circle-1 SC Kh Pritam Singh who met the visiting media team today assured that there is no immediate possibility of a collapse.
Thoubal Multipurpose Project, Maphou Dam is project taken up under the Ministry of Water Resource.
The work on the project began from 1980 but it was later in 2006 that the construction of Maphou dam began.
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Following a leak in the dam, residents of Maphou village had fled their homesteads fearing dam breakage any day as water volume in the dam continued to rise.
The IFCD, Thoubal circle-1 SC said water pipes have been fixed at the dam filter where the leak was reported.
At present, there are no such danger of a collapse and the residents may return to their villages without any fear, he stated.
About 120 villagers of Maphou have been engaged in building dykes around the leakage area to prevent flash flood in the area.
The volume of water in the dam which recorded 896.19 cubic metres in the morning was reduced to 896.16 by 2pm, Pritam stated.
The volume of the water at the dam was decreased by .02 percent and is likely to decrease in the coming hours, as such locals need not fear an immediate collapse, he said.
The dam is releasing water at present.
The situation would have been otherwise had the water been murky and the flow of water strong, he said.
The Department is taking up every possible step to bring the locals back to their village, he added.
It has been ten days now since the villagers of Maphou left their homesteads fearing a sudden collapse of Maphou dam.
Repeated assurance from the State Government on the safety measures for the people has been not heeded.
Villagers continue to take shelter at relief camp set up at Thangjingpokpi.
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