TODAY -
Stop burning down huts at Loktak Lake : A letter to The Home Minister
mukto-mona.com | William Nicholas Gomes | December 29, 2011
I am writing to express my concern regarding the arbitrary police action by the Manipur state police on 19 December against a group of protesters demanding the forced eviction and burning of huts at Loktak Lake in Manipur.
The prohibition will adversely affect over 10,000 people living in phumdi huts, as well as others dependent on Loktak Lake. Sections 19 and 20 of the Act, divides the Lake into two zones – a core zone comprising 70.30 sq km, which is declared a ‘no development zone’, or ‘totally protected zone’, and a buffer zone of other areas of the lake excluding the core zone.
It also violates the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Why was a Rs 224-cr project to clean up Manipur’s Loktak Lake given to a ghost outfit, asks Kunal Majumder.
The clean-up project involves removing 132.94 lakh cubic metres of phumdis – the local name for the thick biomass that is filling up the largest fresh water lake in the Northeast, around 40 km from Imphal.
Yours sincerely,
William Nicholas Gomes
William’s Desk
www.williamgomes.org
Follow the link to read the entire news here
* This Post is uploaded on December 29, 2011
* Comments posted by users in this discussion thread and other parts of this site are opinions of the individuals posting them (whose user ID is displayed alongside) and not the views of e-pao.net. We strongly recommend that users exercise responsibility, sensitivity and caution over language while writing your opinions which will be seen and read by other users. Please read a complete Guideline on using comments on this website.
LATEST IN E-PAO.NET
Jump Start
DBS Imphal SubSite |
Readers Mail |
Editorials |
Education Announcements |
Essay |
Exclusive Event |
Flash - Audio Visual |
Incidents |
LFS Imphal SubSite |
News Timeline |
Poetry |
Opinion |
Sports |
Rock Concert |
RSS |
Top Stories |
Wathi Jugai