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UTTARAKHAND DISASTER : NATURAL DIASTER OR A GENOCIDE ?



It left  me with a weird,  indescribable emotion when i heard of the disaster that was in the making ! As someone whose settled outside uttarakhand for generations , never the less retaining the roots and bonding with my aborigines’, the disaster has left me with tons of vulnerability , anger, and Impotency !
The ubiquitous land mining mafia supported unabashedly by the rules that be , BJP OR Congress ( yes in uttarakhand you’ll find a rare bonding of the rivals for reasons of convenience) , the ill managed tourism promotion , Governments sheer indifference to the ecological imbalance, the disaster in Uttarakhand, it seems, was waiting to happen as the Centre and the state government apparently ignored the warnings of an impending crisis in the hill state.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, submitted to both the governments about three years ago. The report reveals how norms were flouted and environmental concerns set aside to set up several hydroelectricity projects along the river beds.
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The CAG, in its damning report, had cautioned that the hydel projects along the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda have been causing immense damage to the hills.
It warned that these power projects increased the possibility of flash floods in the region and could cause massive environmental damage. The report also cautioned against the extensive deforestation to facilitate the projects saying it would be damaging for the hills.
The CAG further revealed that 38 per cent of projects did not have any plantation. Further putting the state government in the dock, the report says no action was taken against the project developers who operated without proper consent.
Moreover, there were no regular inspections carried out by the concerned authorities and there was an absence of any policy on maintaining aquatic ecosystem in the state.

The tragedy did happen finally as if a befitting finale to CAG’s prophecy !

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