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Krishna Project
Upper Krishna: displaced people in deep water
20 years after they were thrown out of their homes for building dams, access to basic amenities remains a far cry for most of the 4.6 lakh people in rehabilitation centres
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST
Upper Krishna: displaced people in deep water
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST
Rehabilitation rules enforced arbitrarily
Yellappa Hanumanthappa Dodmani, a farmer of Yedahalli in Bilagi taluk of Bagalkot district, knows what he is doing is ‘illegal’. “I have no choice but to ‘encroach’ into the government land and engage in drawdown cultivation as the government did not give alternative farmland,” he said. In 1999, his seven-acre land was acquired by the Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Limited for the Upper Krishna Project (UKP). He received Rs four lakh as compensation. He could not purchase another piece of land for that money. Now Yellappa cultivates in the government land, but he can grow only one crop.
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST
Rehabilitation rules enforced arbitrarily
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST
The unacceptable cost of big development
Upper Krishna Project (UKP), touted as a panacea for the drought-prone North Karnataka region is still incomplete, even after 54 years. The two Krishna Water Disputes Tribunals (1976 and 2010) have allocated 303 TMC of water to UKP out of 911 TMC in Krishna river basin allowed for Karnataka.
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST
The unacceptable cost of big development
13 January 2019, 02:03 IST