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BNP presents Tipai paper

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Staff Correspondent
The Tipaimukh dam and Fulertol barrage will leave the Surma-Kushiyara rivers with virtually no flow and unleash a Farakka-like disaster, said experts at a press meet organised by BNP yesterday.
Leader of the Opposition and BNP chief Khaleda Zia spoke as the chief guest at the press meet held at a city hotel. Different central BNP leaders and activists and a number of Journalists were present.
ANH Akhter Hossain, former secretary to the power and energy ministry during the last BNP rule, presented a keynote paper on the Indian river linking projects and Tipaimukh diun and its possible impacts.
He however did not attribute the proper sources of information he shared at the meet.
Later he admitted that the presentation was prepared by some experts based at home and abroad taking information from the internet. He was unable to say much about the issue when a reporter asked him questions.
During the presentation he said the dam will be 161 metres in height and 390 metres in length. Once built, it will submerge an area of 29,150 hectares from where they will produce 412 megawatt of electricity, he informed.
Citing published reports in The Telegraph, he said if the Tipaimukh dam broke Indian Silchar town would be under 7.7 metres of water, Hailakandi under six metres and Karimganj under 5.5 metres of water.
Lakhipur town will suffer the most as it would go under 10 metres of water, he added.
Initially there was confusion whether India is going to make a barrage at Fulertol point or not, he said, adding, "Just yesterday the construction company mentioned in
their website that they would make the barrage as well."
I Ie said India is planning to extract 86 percent of waters from all rivers flowing through their country though they don't need it.
"India is planning to make more than 300 dams in almost all the Himalayan rivers, many of them are under construction," he added.
He criticised the Joint River Commission's activities in Bangladesh saying its office is not a transparent one. The JRC has no accountability and it never publishes some certain data and documents like lean period's water sharing of the Ganges river, he said.
On the waler politics of the neighbouring country, he said India applies double standards in Bangladesh and changes their position in line with the change of power in Bangladesh.
He suggests launching a campaign to increase public awareness on the management of trans-border rivers and mobilising public opinions both at home and abroad.
A panel of BNP leaders and pro-BNP intellectuals including Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Bir Bikram, Prof Moniruzzaman Mia, former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, and Sharif RafiquI Islam, former official of Water Development Board, also talked on the issue.