NHPC beacons for destruction of human lives

Singtam, Sikkim: It’s almost been years or so the most disputed NHPC Stage V Hydel Project has started a production of Electricity from raging Sikkim’s largest torrential river Teesta but beside production one very important thing hydel project has neglected is security of human habitats meandering along the river side’s. Thousands of people lives along the river banks, playful childrens and animals comprising of domestic & wild life who are constantly roaming along great river bank of Teesta. Some of the people are sustaining their livelihood from the river too alternative to that occupation they have no other option for survival for themselves and their families. May be crores of rupee worth power is generated from the river but what’s the value of those generated power where shaft of turbine kills innocent human lives? The violent gushing current of Teesta is ferocious which has never left anyone alive on its vicinity since many hundred years, now the trapped lakhs of cubic meter volume of water in a dam in recent times if there goes anything wrong then one can think about unscalable catastrophe raging from dam site in Singtam to plains of West Bengal. It is although know reality that the tiny himalayan piece of land Sikkim resides on top of deadly seismic zone and fault, so precaution was top priority to be given at earliest then thinking about production?
What early precautionary measures are adopted and commissioned by NHPC so far, it could just be no other written black & white promises in MoU signed with authority. Lets come to a basic thing now, has any one estimated how much water is stored up there in reservoir in the closed dam of NHPC? Alas! Not really has anyone thought about it…
The necessity is surely a mother of invention but subject to constrain about security first then comes the usages, is not it so? Busy highway NH-31 A runs parallel to the river Teesta, apparently or unfortunately there’s not a single well equipped alarm system or visible signboard which reads “Death is following you!”. Not just a highway even a residential houses which are on both sides of road from Singtam to Sevok in plain are safer in case water level goes bewildering anytime.
Sikkim is a tourist destination place as well as nearby hills of Darjeeling lives up with tourism benefits from river Teesta using it for adventure sports like rafting. In that case what precaution is made so as to notify the innocent people about sudden rise in water level or even while draining excessive water level in reservoir in dam site?
The Hindus cremate dead body in river bank a ritual which is followed since thousands of years, astonishingly there has triggered many instances where the ritual being concluded properly the body gets washed away due to sudden rise in water level of Teesta.

Source: Voice of Sikkim