CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

UN World Water Day this year is all about the link between climate change and fresh water reserve. To encourage people to reflect on these vital issues in local context, **Parivartan** is holding an open essay writing competition. The topic shall be *The Role of Healthy Rivers in Present Global Environment Crisis*. The submission can be done both in Assamese and English language and should not exceed one thousand words. Below are the conditions. 1] That the essay submitted should not be published anywhere else. 2] If possible, please attach atleast three photographs to better tell the story. 3] The competition is open to all. 4] A brief note about you And 5]Your communication address. Winners will be declared on 31st of March. For further details contact Email: gmonoj@gmail.com Ph: +919706076742

KK Chatradhara aka Bhai speaks on the organizations that once protested the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project. He says most of those organizations were led by opportunists. Around 50 organizations took part in the movement against the 2000 MW project which compelled the NHPC Ltd, the construction authority, to halt all works from Dec 14, 2011 onwards. But few days ago, the project authority announced in a local television channel that the construction has been restarted 3 months ago and the work is continuing in full swing. Despite that announcement no organization come out to speak on the issues related to downstream impacts of the project. Those organizations almost vanished somewhere. 

The People's Movement for Subansiri Brahmaputra Valley (PMSBV) today (14th March, 2020) celebrated the International Day of Action for Rivers on the bank of a wetland called Merbeel near Subansiri river. Merbeel is an important source of water and livelihoods for the people living in the adjacent villages but this wetland turns into a branch of the Subansiri river during monsoon. Dirghuram Doley, an elderly of Pirika village, prayed the river and asked kindness to the people. He prayed coolness of everybody's mind as the mother Subansiri's water is cool. He asked the holy river to cure all the diseases suffering by the people who live on the Subansiri river basin. More than a hundred participants, mostly women and youths took part on the occasion and discussed about the future of water bodies and climate change. Earthen lamps were lit and leave them on a banana raft to float on the water of the wetland.

MONOJ GOGOI Aalo, the headquarter of West Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh is a  very beautiful green hilly town on the bank of Siang river. The entire Arunachal Pradesh itself is greener than the rest of the country with more 82 percent forest cover of it's total landmass. The Aalo town and it's adjacent localities are very rich in terms of biodiversity and ecology (including reverine ecosystem). It is observed that due to lack of among the Arunachalees and outsiders an imminent threat is hurrying to Environment including biodiversity and ecology.            Photo: The team of the ATPWDS Kenbom Bagra, 42, an advocate by profession and passionate environmental activist whole heartedly working stop the environmental degradationiin Arunachal Pradesh, particularly in West Siang district. Bagra, initially, a lone warrior but he did a lot of work to uniting the people of the Aalo town for the purpose. In 2016, with some of his like minded friend...

BY MONOJ GOGOI Assam, with highest populated in terms of number and density, a northeastern state of India with diverse geomorphology often comes to the limelight even in national and international levels due to catastrophic floods occurrs in the monsoon. Assam is always believed as a water-abundance state for it's annual rainfall average (varied between 2600 to 3000 cm) which is more than the double than the national average (about 1100 cm) and the Brahmaputra river system. The Brahmaputra has innumerous tributaries with various sizes and characteristics. Other water bodies like wetlands, marshy lands, swamps, fisheries (cature and culture), various sizes of ponds are also available in the state. The state is often comes to the discussion for it's devastating floods and erosions and it's mitigation measures not for draughts or water scarcity. There are millions of people, living in some topographies face immense difficulty to get sources...

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