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Forcibly Evicting Innocent People For Mega Project In India
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 2, 2012: the Mapithel Dam Affected Villagers Organization and the Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur write that the villagers of Riha, Thawai, Lamlai Khullen, Chadong along the Thoubal River in Ukhrul district, Manipur are likely to be evicted by force to complete the construction of the Mapithel Dam, a part of the Thoubal Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project in Manipur according to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Villagers do not want to stand in way of a development project, but they want the satisfactory compensation for their properties and rehabilitation package enforced through a transparent and accountable process. The villagers also allege that the Manipur state government has ignored the compensation and rehabilitation for several other villagers living upstream of the project and living immediately after the Mapithel dam.
There is also an allegation that the state government, through the office of the District Commissioner (DC), is depending upon a disputed list that includes names of people who have never resided in the villages affected by the project. The villagers suspect that the inclusion of persons and households that in fact does not exist is with an intention for the state government officers to illegally appropriate the compensation money in fictitious names. The DC has declared a prohibitory order under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1974 in the region and a large contingent of state police as well as soldiers from the Indian military are stationed in the region.
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