Imphal, Feb. 19: The campaign against Tipaimukh hydroelectric project is gaining momentum in Manipur with various local organisations joining the anti-dam cry and demanding scrapping of the project. Today, students and villagers from 10 villages of Imphal West took out a bicycle rally in the district.
The campaign was kicked off on February 11 following a review meeting on Tipaimukh dam attended by various Manipur-based NGOs, including the Citizens’ Concern for Dam and Development.

IMPHAL: As a part of preserving the ecological balance in the Loktak, the biggest natural lake in Eastern Indian, the officials of the Loktak Development Authority (LDA) have started forcing the fishermen to burn their thatched shacks constructed on the floating bio-mass. According to the Manipur Loktak Lake (Protection) Act, 2006 the government identified 1,100 thatched huts. The government had decided to give them Rs 40,000 each for rehabilitation elsewhere.

Tipaimukh Dam's construction is about to begin, said a top official of Nipko, affiliated company of the Indian Power Ministry which will implement the hydroelectric project in River Barak, an international river.
He said Nipko Company obtained environmental clearance approval and received go-ahead from the central government to build the dam at Tipaimukh in Churachandpur district in India's Monip

Imphal, Nov 29: Villagers in the interior Thanlon subdivision of Churachandpur district got a relief when Manipur Renewable Energy Resource Development Agency (MANIREDA) provided solar home lighting systems to them.

IMPHAL, Aug 10: Manipur has created yet another record apart from having remained cut off for 68 days. This one, however, is a positive one

Anti-dam activists in Bangladesh and India have come together to protest against the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur.

Bangladesh protests dam in Manipur sunamgonj in Bangladesh, a few kilometres from the border with India, looks stirred up. On June 21, the town citizenry gathered at the public library to listen to five speakers from India

Manipur Health Minister Pheiroijam Parijat today expressed concern over the deaths of 30 children due to a mysterious disease, and that he would send a medical team to examine the cause of the disease. The deaths occurred in Manipur's Churachandpur District. Health officials informed that most of the children who had died had complained of breathing problems prior to their deaths. A medical team of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) has organized a camp at the Parbung Health Centre to monitor the health of the patients.

IMPHAL, Feb 17

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