polavaram project
5o years ago a project called 'polavaram project' was proposed by the govt of Andhra Pradesh. A dam would be constructed across the river Godavari at a height of 150 feet and was estimated to cost 9,000 crores. However, today the chief minister put this at 20,000 crores.
And for those thousands living there, well there is nothing much they can do. It's a real pity that the govt doesn't really consider the damage caused to the ecology and the people living there.
The project would submerge several archaeological sites like Gollagudem, Rudrama Kota and Tutigunta and unexplored coal deposits but what hits me the most is that the project will displace 1.45 lakh people in AP, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
posted by foto.iris at 7:09 AM
8 Comments:
Beautiful. A poignant potrayal of the spirit of the place. Well done!
well written...my dad took a trip dwn this lane a few weeks ago...u see..Godavari was a part of his childhood..and will remain in his memory for ever...
What I do not understand is the mindset of our govt.Are there yet to prove themselves as some intellect sect..have not they seen the situation out there in Narmada???
How many homes dissulated? I fear to even think of that....
I had read a blog with someone wondering what would be the fate of this project. It is disheartening to see most dams ending up this way. What can we do to help?
Couple of words come to my mind when i go through your pictures: stark,pure, unrestrained. just the way real-life photography should be. you have an eye for capturing details and presenting them in a very surrealistic form. the overall effect is therefore, breathtakingly beautiful. thank you for sharing them with me. keep up the good work.
Its happening the world over mads...
Its ad...
There's one such project even underway in China...
will send you details later...
Ut makes me cry
i hate big dmas
i so hate them!!! :(
the question of preserving arachaelogical sites arises when the population has recieved a certain basic standard of living. Lack of such a project and a heavy reliance on monsoon has been the root cause of all the farmer suicides seen in recent times in India.
Development comes with a cost. Time will pass on and we should learn to develop & move with time(we developed in population, but not as a society and hence we are an under developed state/nation. The project is planned 50 years back, then also there were sensible people in the Govt and now also there ARE. The dirty politics played by TDP and TRS by means of filing multiple legal litigations hampered the process of getting the approvals(it took 5yrs for YSR to get the approvals that too when a friendly center is willing to help). I personally do not like congress party, but I appreciate YSR for his sensibility and dedication to take up this project. How many of us know that Godavari is AP's biggest river, yet we do not have one single dam to store the water for future needs of irrigation and hydroelectricity. I agree this is hard for those 145 thousand
(my Telugu and some friends in adjacent states)family members, but in the interest of the at least 2 crore people(minimum 6 districts benefit) for generations to come, I would request them to cooperate, and the Govt. should make the rehabilitation work smooth and exemplary.
Creditscoring...I dunno what makes you think Big dams are the only solutions...you have no idea of the people living on the higher altitude. Have you thought of people living in Orossa, chatisgarh and Maharastra. Not only the water tables decrease, land becoming arid and animal population dead but thousands of the relocated. Higher altitides also get salinated.
Big dams like in Egypt, chine (built on yellow river), russian and east europeans are great examples of self destruction.
Govt can no doubt build smaller scale dams that will increase the water table in the local areas.
And no govt is stronger than nature, no dam in the history has saved people from floods.
Its not the farmers only in Andhra Pradesh ..its same accross the globe. Unfortunately the andhra farmers get an incentive to kill them selves. Solutions to the farmer community are different - we need hell lot of food preocessing industries in the country. Today aagriculture is much more in demand and will continue to be so for next 4-5 years, farmers will be offered good prices. Its all about demand and supply cycle . At the same time small farmer will be allowed to be indendept
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