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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | KMSS protests sail of turbines

KMSS protests sail of turbines

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published Published on Sep 11, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 11, 2011

-The Telegraph

 

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti and the All Assam Students Union today launched statewide protests against the movement of turbines meant for lower Subansiri hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh.

Two Bangladeshi vessels, carrying the NHPC turbines, which had remained stranded for months at Bongshichar in Dhubri district following anti-dam protests, had yesterday set sail for Jogighopa in Bongaigaon district to offload the consignment.

In Guwahati, about 200 KMSS members, led by its general secretary Akhil Gogoi, today marched towards the office of ABC India Limited, the transport company contracted to transport the turbines to the NPHC dam site at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district. Party activists also spilled onto the streets in front of Cotton College this morning.

“Our members and supporters have launched protests against turbine movement and big dams and if the turbines are not stopped, the state will witness more disturbances. I am in contact with Anna Hazare-led India against Corruption and the issue of big dam will feature in the national movement also,” Gogoi said.

KMSS activists from Dhubri and AASU members from Goalpara and Bongaigaon staged dharna near Jogighopa river port. Security in and around the port has been tightened.

Several KMSS activists were injured when police resorted to lathicharge and blank firing to disperse protesters at Jamuguri and Beelgaon in Golaghat district. Two of them, Semen Baruah and Lakheswar Dutta, have been admitted to Golaghat civil hospital. More than 300 KMSS activists gathered in these areas to stop trains. Many activists were arrested in Jorhat, Sivasagar and Dibrugarh districts as they blocked highways.

ABC India Limited today alleged that it had been forced by the administration to take the cargo to Jogighopa. It said it had informed the government and the NHPC that it would not transport the turbines because of public outrage. “We have been asked to offload the consignment at Jogighopa,” D.K. Das, the company’s officer-on-special duty for the Northeast, told The Telegraph.

The turbines had not reached Jogigopha till late this evening. A source in the IWT said the vessels were likely to reach tonight.

The KMSS and the AGP, including its leader and former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta accused the government of raising the issue of big dams to divert public attention from the “twin misdeeds” of land swap deal with Dhaka and “irregularities” of about Rs 270 crore in the irrigation department.

There was no immediate reaction from the government but sources in Dispur said it was its duty to facilitate the transportation safely.

The Telegraph, 11 September, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/frontpage/story_14492206.jsp


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