Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | KMSS asks workers to leave project site

KMSS asks workers to leave project site

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Sep 17, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 17, 2011

-The Telegraph

 

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), which is fighting against big dams, today asked outsiders engaged in the construction of the NHPC dam at Gerukamukh to leave the region immediately, warning that goons might attack them taking advantage of the ongoing protest.

“I appeal to all the workers at the NHPC site in Lower Subansiri to stop working for the construction company and help in the fight against big dams. Those coming from outside the region should leave the state because miscreants may target and attack them. We are leading peaceful movements and appeal to all to help us to stop constructing big dams,” KMSS general secretary Akhil Gogoi told reporters here. The RTI activist warned all workers, officials and technicians from outside Assam working at the site to leave the state or get ready for a mass social boycott.

The KMSS today blocked transportation of construction materials to the NHPC dam site in North Bank districts.

Gogoi said police in Sonitpur, Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts had arrested several KMSS members.

“We request all labourers and NHPC employees from Assam to stop work, as the big dam in Arunachal Pradesh will bring destruction in their home state. Our members will soon visit their houses with flowers and request them not to work in big dam projects,” he said. The KMSS plans to carry out such protests all over the state.

It warned the state government of a “civil disobedience” movement if it kept barricading every peaceful movement of theirs. They said the administration would be responsible for the agitation.

“As part of our movement, we will organise massive protests in all the district headquarters, beginning in Nagaon on September 22,” he said.

“Instead of paying heed to the public movement, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has instructed all superintendents of police and deputy commissioners in upper and central Assam districts to take actions against our activists and prevent them from taking out protests and stopping transportation of construction materials to the dam site,” he added.

Gogoi alleged that the state government was resorting to cheap tactics and trying to break down the movement against big dams by creating a divide between the organisations fighting for the cause.

Gogoi urged the All Assam Students Union, the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad and the Takam Mising Porin Kebang to fight together and not as separate entities to stop construction of big dams. “We are all fighting against big dams and if we join hands our fight will be stronger and the government will be compelled to stop the work,” he said.

Gogoi said the All-Koch Rajbongshi Students Union had decided to join the KMSS in its fight against big dams. “We will continue to fight against big dams because big dams will have an adverse impact on the entire river eco-system of Assam despite the harassment and atrocities by government machinery against our activists,” he added.

The Telegraph, 18 September, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110918/jsp/frontpage/story_14521522.jsp


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close