SUPREME COURT FAILED FARMERS
IN RIVER INTERLINKING CASE
Farmers
have become a forgotten tribe in our corporate democracy. The dream to
interlink Indian rivers for which then President of India Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
paid lip service in a Republic Day speech had been laid to rest by recent
Supreme Court order, reported in The Times of India, reproduced in verbatim
below :
Supreme
Court had expressed inability to direct the Government of India to pump in 5
lakh crore this year to start the river interlink project.
Nandhivarman's petition rejected in admission stage, then he wrote in New Times Observer in Tamil Pongal special issue and posted to President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, who spoke in Republican Day speech. Then lawyers of Delhi filed the case on which the above observation came from Supreme Court.
According
to the Stolen Asset Recovery initiative of the World Bank and the UN Office on
Drugs and Crime published in 2011, titled Puppet Masters reminds us that Indian
rulers are mere puppets and puppeteers are multi-national companies and other
mafias.
If only
people with conscience can ask, why our stolen assets could not be brought back
to finance the river inter-link project it would awaken the rulers from slumber
and lethargy. Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam who should have raised repeatedly the
inter-link of rivers conveniently forgot once out of power.
Our
rivers are diverted by China. Our Himalayan glaciers are melting year after
year. North India faces flood fury without fail in every year. Our rivers are
emptying in our seas. Farmers have no water left for agriculture.
As per
2003 statistics of World Commission of Dams China tops with 22,000 dams.
America follows with 6575 dams, India has 4291 dams and tiny Japan is with 2675
dams. These dams not only cater to agricultural needs but also generate power.
The head
waters of most of the major rivers of Asia are in Tibet, so damming them could
have implications downstream, said Aviva Imhof, campaign director of
International Rivers Org.
Our
Brahmaputra starts in South West Tibet as Yarlung Tsango River and flows
through Southern Tibet and crosses through Himalayas and reaches our Indian
State of Arunachal Pradesh assuming the name Dihang. From South West of Assam
valley it is known as Brahmaputra. It has Amouchu, Raidak, Sankosh, Nans,
Bhareli, Dibang, Luhit, Burhiding, Dihing, Kameng, Manas, Yamuna, Teesta,
Rangeet, Lachung, Darla, Jaldhaka as its tributaries. This Brahmaputra is
diverted within Chinese territory as picture depicts. But in spite of that
Arunachal Pradesh faces flood fury every year.
To manage
the floods in Arunachal Pradesh, India prepared a plan and sought assistance
from Asian Development Bank. China raised objections in June 2009 after Asian
Development Bank’s Board of Directors and member countries endorsed a Country
partnership strategy for 2009-2012 which included Arunachal project. The bank
withdrew the project. Our Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, sudden lobbyist of Koodankulam
project did not raise any voice even over the Chinese intervention in flood
management of Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Our river
waters should not be used by our farmers, and Indian rulers have put river
interlink project in cold storage, only to redeem it on the day corporate
farming catches in India. There cannot be any other reason to be debating
beyond 4 decades river inter linking, and the failure of which results in flood
furies year after year.
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul
Kalam being a scientist will proudly proclaim that astronomers of California
Institute of Technology have discovered
a mass of water vapour that is 140 trillion times that all of the water in the
worlds oceans combined and 100000 times more massive than the Sun, according to
Astrophysical Journal Letters.
May be
our farmers can take bullock carts and women can carry mud pots to the Quasar
APM 08279+5255, which harbours a black hole 20 billion times more massive than
the Sun and produces as much energy as thousand trillion Suns.
After the
Supreme Court observation that 5 lakh crore could not be spent to inter-link
rivers Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam the man who in office supported this project must
have spoken, why he remained silent and mouth shut in this matter while openly
advocating Koodankulam project, people have right to question his credentials.
The
Drivers and Dynamics of Illicit Financial Flows from India: 1948-2008 published
by Global Financial Integrity states the total value of illicit assets held
abroad represents 72% of India’s underground economy. Estimated around $213
million in 2008 it would be around $ 462 million now.
If this
or partial amount of this had been brought back Supreme Court need not have
expressed inability to direct the Government of India to cough up 5 lakh crore
for interlinking of rivers.
As one
who through by 4 decade friend Comrade George Fernandes who got River interlink
project inducted into the Election manifesto of National Democratic Alliance and
one who first knocked the Supreme Court, which even the Times of India news
mentions, I would appeal to great personalities like Anna Hazare, Sri Sri,
Ramdev, and our APJ.Abdul Kalam to force the Government to start the river
interlink project by bringing back hoarded black money to provide water to our farmers and boost our agrarian economy.
N.Nandhivarman
General Secretary Dravida Peravai
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