CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

Chronology of Subansiri Movement The Decade Long Struggle Continues against the LSHEP  -Monoj Gogoi  - gmonoj@gmail.com    The strength of the protest against the construction of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Ltd’s 2000MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHEP), which is under construction at Gerukamukh on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, reached such a height today that it could halt the entire construction works of the project for over a year. In December 2011;  the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad(AJYCP), Takam Mising Porin Kebang (TMPK) and few other organizations jointly launched an NHPC’s construction materials blockade programme at Pahumara near Ranganadi bridge in North Lakhimpur district and turned the movement violent immediately after the pre dawn crackdown of December 16,2011, in which the security forces brutally attacked the anti-dam agitators participating in the blockade programme. The fla

Interstate cooperation is essential to reduce flood hazards in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji  MONOJ GOGOI                                                    (Women's work during flood)  To focus attention on the global freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources, the whole world will celebrate the United Nations (UN) World Water Day tomorrow. As the theme of the Day changes every year, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation (Resolution A/RES/65/154) in December 2010. On the eve of the World Water Day several experts on the flood issue opined that to minimize the flood hazards in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of Assam interstate cooperation between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, was much more essential than the international cooperation. Dr Partha J Das, an environmentalist and a river researcher, who heads the Aaranyak's Water, Climate and Hazard (WATCH) Programme