Environment / Mizoram

IMPHAL, July 18 Manipur Chief Minister W Nipamacha Singh today said his government has ordered another survey of the proposed Tipaimukh dam to determine its height. A final decision would be taken only after studying the final survey report, he told the Assembly. Earlier, raising the issue, former Chief Minister Rishang Keishing of the Congress said he wanted to know the government's stand on the power project. The government had earlier opposed the dam on the ground that it would submerge large areas of the state. The Chief Minister said Northeastern Electric Power Corporation has been...

GUWAHATI, August 18: The Rs 2,899-crore Tipaimukh dam project of the Brahmaputra Board involving three Northeast states -Manipur, Mizoram and Assam -still awaits inter-state clearance from the concerned state governments for its execution which is being pursued by the Brahmaputra Board and the ministry of water resources. The techno-economic angle of the detailed project report submitted by Brahmaputra Board was approved by the technical advisory committee of the concerned ministry in August, 1995. The cost of Rs 2,899 crore (at the 1995 price level) which would now be over Rs 3,000 crore...

Aizawl, July 16: The Mizoram government will give compensation to eight families in Saiha and Lawngtlai districts whose crops have been destroyed by elephants, the state's environment and forests minister Rualchhina informed the Assembly on Friday. In reply to a question by Independent H Rammawi, the minister said that some elephants destroyed paddy and standing crops in the southern parts of the state. Rammawi said "rogue elephants" from the Ngengpui wildlife sanctuary poised a danger to the lives of the local populace besides destroying their crops.