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Leave rivers alone

Greens ask India to drop river-linking project

Staff Correspondent
Environmental activists in Dhaka yesterday demanded immediate cancellation of Indian river-linking project that recently got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court of the neighbouring country.
“We are deeply concerned over the recent order of Indian Supreme Court on the river-linking project,” said
noted columnist Syed Abul Maksudyesterday.
He was speaking at a citizens' rally organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa), an environmental organisation, in front of Dhaka University fine arts faculty.
On February 27, the Indian court ordered implementation of the mega scheme in a "time-bound manner".
The project that involves linking 30 major rivers and diverting the Ganges and the Brahmaputra is opposed by other neighbouring countries and environmentalists.
Activists say the diversion of water from these rivers will harm interests of the neighbours and cause an ecological disaster.
"We condemn any damage of an Indian river due to water diversion by China. We, at the same time, cannot easily accept any Indian step that may harm a Bangladeshi river,” Maksud, an executive member of the organisation, said.
Bangladesh and India are
friendly neighbours and any breach in this relation because of a unilateral decision from Indian side will be unfortunate, the columnist said.
"We do not want to go for confrontation with India; rather we believe in friendly negotiation to solve the problem," he added.
Maksud, who presided over the programme, also hoped India would consider the concern of Bangladeshi people and scrap the project
Bapa General Secretary Abdul Matin said the government should protest the Indian project and people should be aware of it.
The organisation called the rally to press home their six-point demand, including cancellation of the riverlinking and Tipaimukh dam projects, formation of a policy for the use of regional rivers following discussion among Bangladesh, India, Nepal and China.
Bapa joint secretaries Mihir Biswas and Zakir Hossain, among others, spoke at the event