Loktak Multipurpose Project and its Environmental Implications in Manipur (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

Development was considered synonymous with the materialistic achievements of the people and development concerns were confined to merely increasing production of goods and providing for facilities of comfortable living. Consequently, indiscriminate emphasis was laid on the exploitation of natural resources for maximizing outputs and causing extensive damage to the environment. Loktak Multipurpose Project came to the state with many development schemes of power, irrigation and flood control to bring prosperity to the entire Northeast India from industrialization with low cost electricity and agricultural development particular in Manipur. Though there are many expected benefits the project suffers from a number of limitations. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to describe an integral view of causes and impacts of the Loktak Multipurpose Project to the environment and its adverse effect to the economic activities of the people of Manipur and it further attempts to keep su...

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