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Submitted to
President of India
Copy to
Prime Minister of IndiaChief Minister of OdishaChief Justice of IndiaSmt Sonia Gandhi (UPA Chairperson)Shri L.K. Advani (Opposition Leader, Lok Sabha)Shri Arun Jaitley (Opposition Leader, Rajya Sabha)Shri Rahul Gandhi (General Secy. Congress)Shri Rajnath Singh (President, BJP)MPs and MLAs of OrissaPress
Submitted & Approved by
Members of Koshal Discussion and Development Forum (KDDF),Members of Juhar New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Berhampurand Bhubaneswar,Members of VSS Parivar & well wishers
Drafted by
Er. Sameer Panda, New Delhisameerp19@gmail.com
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ToDear Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Patil,Copy to:Honorable Prime Minister of India, Dr. Singh;Honorable Chief Minister of Odisha, Mr. N. Patnaik;Honorable Chief Justice of India;Smt Sonia Gandhi;Shri L.K. Advani;MPs and MLAs of Odisha;PressDear Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Patil,We the general public and intelligentsia of backward, tribal and Maoist infested area of Indiai.e. Western part of Odisha, which is historically known as Koshal are disheartened and hurtdue to recent
farmers’ death in the region in daily basis
. Odisha state Government is unableand unwilling to take appropriate step to address the problem, especially when the interest of Koshal region comes due to step-motherly attitude towards the region. The unwillingness of political leadership and govt. officials is because of grafting huge fundings from these miningand metallurgical industries.To unveil few facts and circumstances for your kind attention and adequate action, we beg tostate that
, Koshal region had been a prosperous land with abundant natural resources and self sufficient economy
. Flood was not known to Koshal region as it is situated on EasternGhat, which is hilly area and have natural drainage system. However,
there were manyoccasions of draughts due to lack of proper irrigation.
In spite of that it had been a heaven fortribal people for centuries.Hirakud dam and other dams were built by the Govt. primarily to decrease the damage byflood in Coastal Odisha and secondarily to facilitate irrigation in Koshal region (WesternOdisha including KBK). As most of the dams were built in Western Odisha, many villageswere displaced and many people lost their natural habitat. Moreover the displaced peoplewere kept away from due compensation for their irreparable damage. The act of displacingpeople without adequate compensation and forcing them to live in pity for generations isblatant violation of Right to Life conferred by Constitution of India and Human Rights.The displaced people settled in places near Hirakud Dam such as in Jharsuguda, Sambalpurand Bargarh districts.
After losing their land and not being compensated said displaced peoplebought land and lived on small income generated from their small land holdings.
Irrigationand rain saved these people from facing severe draught like situation for years.
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Forest coverage of the catchment area of Hirakud Dam which lies mostly in Chhattisgarh, hasdeclined drastically which is evident from browsing catchment area of the Hirakud on GoogleEarth. Most of the perenial water sources and streams come from the Bauxite holdingMountains due to the water affinity of the mineral. As bauxite and iron ores are beingextracted, the water holding capacity of these have declined causing siltation, flash floods etcduring rain and draught during summer. Adding to it unsustainable industrialization and useof water resources by Industry the irrigation in this region has suffered. High level of Pollution due to many small and large industries along with an ineffective, corrupt PollutionControl Board; and indiscriminate deforestation has decreased precipitation and has increaseddiseases leading either to decrease in yield or loss of crop.The State Government had given false assurance to the Koshal region farmers that irrigationin the Hirakud command area will not be adversely affected by industrialization, neverthelessthe government has taken all steps to facilitate use of water by Industry which is actuallymeant for farmers. Though the Industries have huge financial resources to make their ownwater bodies or to increase the water holding capacity of Hirakud the govt. has not taken astep for it, rather left the poor farmers to suffer for their innocence in believing the StateGovernment.According to survey conducted by Pune-based National Centre for Advocacy Studies andGovernment’s reply in the Assembly, in just two years from 1998-’99 to 2000-’01 rabiirrigation potential has shrunk by 18.48 per cent in the command area. Prior to the pre-April1997 period, water withdrawal permission to industries from Hirakud was just 71,252 lakhgallons per year (LGY), which was only 13.2 per cent of the total industrial water usepermission granted in Odisha. Now the Government of Odisha have permitted to use5,04,431.2 LGY water from Hirakud which was 26.3 per cent of the total withdrawalpermission. After the formation of Water Allocation Committee industrial water allocationfrom the reservoir has gone up to 31.45 percent total water burden of industries. DevelopmentSupport Centre, Ahmedabad has found that in the tail-end of the designated command area 82per cent are not getting water even today. So, Hirakud dam is no more solving the purpose of irrigation rather solving the purposes of Industries.
Step-motherly attitude of Government of Odisha and no step for irrigation, sustainabledevelopment, exploitation, no crop insurance, no easy finance etc. have brought this level of disparity and frustration that the farmers have no other way but to commit suicide.
Moreinterestingly few leaders of ruling BJD party have tried to paint it in different colours withouteven properly investigating into the matter, and are trying to escape from their responsibility.Keeping in view of above facts and circumstances we beg your kind intervention in thismatter for finding out a plausible solution and take immediate action.
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