The catastrophe of Rishi Ganga brought back the serious question | Actions of nature, or man?

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The picture is a huge mountain on the laptop screen saver. According to the dense green table, a huge waterfall is descending from the high ground. It doesn't feel good to see the picture.

The catastrophe of Rishi Ganga brought back the serious question

Just forty-eight hours ago, I saw a mountain of water falling into a low river flowing through two high ridges of the mountain. Shana is going with the oil picture on her mobile, screaming "Dekhe keya aa raha ... dekhe ... bhage bhagae ...", those whose voices I could hear, are they alive? Their anonymous village has been saved? I don't know. The unknown is the story of the 44 missing students who went to school in 2013 from a village on the banks of the Mandakini River to fetch results. In the last few years, amazing technology has been used to cut tunnels in the mountains in the high Himalayas and cross the river through them. As a result, the river is used in a 'convenient' way in many short ways without following the course of the river. There are rivers to use it. The tunnel is shorter than its own zigzag path, sloping down. A huge amount of soil was washed away with water. Instead of the river flowing its own way, the soil is blocked at the mouth of the tunnel. The inside of the tunnel was stuck in the mud. The laborers were working. Workers also have names, villages. If there is no work in their own village, they have to leave their family and come to work so far. When the dam broke, they were swept away by the first push. Nor can it float mud. Buried in the pile. A member of the rescue team told reporters, "One hundred and eighty meters long tunnel, we have only been able to enter forty meters all night. Why are all these dams so high in the Himalayas? In whose interest? What is the price to pay? Who pays? One horrible catastrophe unveils all the strange realities. It is now reported that the village of Raini, 20-30 km from Joshimath, where the rescue team is headquartered, had appealed to the Uttarakhand High Court about two years ago not to have the dam project on the Rishi Ganga near their village. According to the law, public hearings and EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) must be reported before such a project can take place. Now permanent residents say that the glacier started after the dynamite blast.

It may or may not be true. But both are generally true. Dynamite cracking is also used for road construction or mountain cracking. Blasting - After that in the Himalayas. A huge landslide can happen in any area. She. Such incidents have happened many times. I assumed that there was no explosion that day. But the local people, who have lived in those places for generations, have a lot of rules for the nature of the mountains. You know, they said in one sentence, “The wide road (paved road) is entering the glacial area, it is. It's scary. The jungle is being cut down, but the icy area is fragile, don't leave it alone, it's okay. The glacier area is very sensitive. It is better to intervene there. Such a catastrophe is terrible enough, but nothing in nature is isolated. The results of trying to deal with a disaster with a job are often far-reaching. As the waters of the Rishi Ganga began to recede on Sunday, two very important technical decisions were made, one being to shut off the water from Tehri to Berana. Two, the reservoir of Alaknanda Dam near Srinagar was emptied, in an attempt to stem the downpour. But, what can be done when the reservoir-free water suddenly starts flowing at a tremendous speed in the lower reaches of Alaknanda? The devastation of 2013 has not yet been fully recovered. The water will go down to Haridwar where Kumbh Mela was going on. Everyone has been instructed to move to a safe place. Those who have visited Haridwar Hrishikesh in the last few years know that there is not a single Shataranchi leaf left on the banks of the Ganges, which has been disrupted by religion and urbanization. In two villages. One day it will not be known, what really happened to the fate of the people in those places! The Ganges children of the 'Save Ganga' campaign have been delivering testimonials of the danger to the area in the hands of every MP since 2008 with a plea not to dam the Ganges and its tributaries.

Among those proposed dams was the Vishnugarh Dam. Nigmananda, according to Agarwal, died on one hunger strike after another, making the same demand to the government. Atmabedhananda Swami came back from the brink of death. If the ruling party gives importance to the demands of the concerned people on any issue of the country, how can democracy work? The unscientific technology of the dam is not seen in America and Europe today, only the countries of the 'Third World' are still building it. Irrigation. What started with the name, the purpose completely failed. All irrigation is done by pumping groundwater. Hydropower? Himanshu Thakkar, an internationally renowned river expert, wrote in his journal South Asian Network of Dams Rivers and People in 2019, "Judging from all angles, hydropower generation is no longer financially viable. The cost of electricity generated from any dam that is being constructed or under construction will be at least 7-8 rupees per unit, while the price of electricity from solar or wind will be 3 rupees or less per unit. And this alternative energy is in no way deeply harmful to the social and natural aspects of hydropower projects. Who benefits from this hugely dangerous construction? Whose profit? Now there are explanations coming from various quarters in an attempt to shift the blame for the danger to the whims of nature. On Sunday, an officer of the rescue team was helplessly saying on the TV camera, we could not find out our mistake. Just as the swarming rhythm on the cedar was not noticed during the heavy rains, so also why the water flow of the Rishi Ganga decreased, whether any rhythm was formed above it or not. One thing came to mind. Sudden 'cloudburst' rains everywhere, huge glaciers collapsing somewhere, lakes or ponds being formed by closing the mouths of any of the thousands of small streams, or sudden local waterlogging breaking the mouths of the ponds are common occurrences in the vast depths of the Himalayas. This is how it is going. Forever. The danger has not reached this level, as long as a human intervention has not reached the level of that formidable area of nature.