tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353818689632323514.post3085926089355779666..comments2023-12-07T02:28:04.076-08:00Comments on shivajirao: UNSAFE KUDANKULAM REACTORS DUE TO DEFECTIVE EVACUATION PLANS SHIVAJI RAO- ENVIRONMENTALISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15500272352488660749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353818689632323514.post-56107759762241969242012-12-19T02:24:07.619-08:002012-12-19T02:24:07.619-08:00Congratulations to Kodali Santhu for having raised...Congratulations to Kodali Santhu for having raised several questions which are bothering the minds of millions of people regarding the relationship between development and environment. No environmentalist can be against development because developmental activities planned on ecologically unsound lines by violating all the rules and regulations alone will become unproductive in the long run and causes economic bankruptcy of a nation. And if developmental activities are planned on ecological sound lines on the UN principles of development without destruction both the health and welfare including the environment and the economy will positively improve to contribute to the quality of life of all living beings. With reference to your example of a person touching an electric wire the death of the concerned careless person alone will be affected but not the lives of millions of others.But in the case of polavaram project the controversy is that while the most honest and eminent experts like Dr.K.L.Rao, Dr.A.N.Khosla, Mr.Gulhati Sir.Arthur Cotton and others was to build a barrage on the upstream of Godavari bridge at Rajahmundry and divert more than 80 TMC from Godavari into Krishna river through a diversion work, the design flood was changed to 50 lakh cusecs and in spite of this change the so called state experts did not make a corresponding change in the design of the dam although Dr.K.L.Rao who was associated with this project declared on 30th April 1983 that Polavaram dam is defectively designed because this spillway for the passage of floods was under-designed unlike the design used for Godavari barrage and Krishna barrages and hence the project is bound to fail some day or the other. The experts of the National Institute of Hydrology at Roorkee who submitted the dam break analysis report clearly warned that under the Dam Break flood which is higher than the spillway design flood the dam breaches and with the propagation of the dam break flood wave at different locations on the downstream side of the project the flood elevations at Rajahmundry 30km below polavaram will attain elevations of 35m and thereby drown major cities like Rajahmundry, Kovvuru and most of the villages and towns to the east of the Vijayawada-Samarlakota railway line and in between Kakinada and Kolleru lakes, causing loss of lives of about 40 to 50 lakhs of people and many lakhs of cattle population.<br />Thus Polavarm project has become a prescription for disaster. In order to supply Godavari water to Krishna basin on a higher scale than contemplated by a major dam at Polavaram several experts like the former Engineer-in-Chief Sri.T.Hanumantha Rao suggested 3 to 4 smaller special barrages that do not silt but provide more water and electricity to the state besides avoiding submersion of a very large number of tribal villages both in Andhra Pradesh and the upper states of Chattisgarh and Orissa. Infact the Orissa High Court gave a judgement on polavaram dam project that the AP State is prohibited from causing any lands are displaced any tribals from orissa by constructing the project in its present form. Although the central Government announced several times that polavaram project has not been cleared by the union Government the local state Government, Secretaries and Engineers concerned with the project are bluffing the public that the polavaram project is likely to be converted into a national project.Thus the state ministers are completely cheating the people of the state and the country on this polavaram dam project. But we environmentalists want definitely the transfer of Godavari water into Krishna river as otherwise the delta lands will be converted into grass lands as they were during the British rule in India.Hence myself and Sri.T.Hanumantha Rao and many leaders in Telangana are positively working to divert water from Godavari into Krishna river basin.<br />SHIVAJI RAO- ENVIRONMENTALISThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15500272352488660749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353818689632323514.post-58773405140174398252012-12-01T22:07:39.987-08:002012-12-01T22:07:39.987-08:00Dear Sir,
My comment is not for this post, but fo...Dear Sir,<br /><br />My comment is not for this post, but for your posts relating to polavaram Project.<br /><br />You are very elder to me.<br /><br />Electricity will give current shock to a human when he comes in contact with the conductor carrying current, and it may lead to death of the person. At the same time some kind of Electric Generation plants cause deterioration of environment. So shall we stop useing electricity and producing electricity??????<br /><br />It is a well known fact to one and all that every year lot of water is wastely draining in to Bay of Bengal fron Godavari. So after a vast search by many people Polavaram is found to be a suitable place for the construction of dam.<br /><br />Environmental Scince is a subject which is developped for human usage, so that the environment is protected or safegaurded by certain measures during human developpment activities like a dam construction.<br /><br />So here, for our present subject 'Polavaram Dam', being a Environmental expert you can advice for safegaurding the Environment while constructing the Polavaram Dam, but not advising "NO POLAVARAM DAM".<br /><br />Every activity of a human being, right from 'breathing', however small may be the effect, effects the enviroment. The way in which you are arguing for Environment in 'Polavaram Dam' case, if implied to the case of a living human being, means that no human being shall live, so that the enviroment is protectedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407587220586792897noreply@blogger.com