write short travel story on the topic mithan dam
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A month ago (Sept 26-29), I joined the SEEDS team in Maithon, approx an hours drive from Dhanbad (India’s coal capital) in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Little did i know, this would turn out to be the most challenging SEEDS project that I’d cover during my three month sabbatical w/SEEDS India. India’s rise a major economic super power is placing enormous pressure to achieve rapid growth to catch up with other countries. at the core of this, is a requirement to generate more electricity to power the factories in India’s industrialized belt that will deliver this economic progress.Maithon is the site of an upcoming 1,050 MW power plant by one of the power majors of the country. It is likely that a couple of hundred families will be displaced as a result of this project. The SEEDS team on the ground is speaking with tribal leaders/elders to understand how these families will be impacted, the team also spoke with the existing political leadership and is in discussions with power plant officials to preparing a white-paper with a point of view (POV) on how best to manage this transition in the best interests of the community.As with any major infrastructure project in India, one on side we have a corporation that is deeply invested in ensuring its financial interests are protected and project milestones achieved (while being socially responsible). On the other hand we have an incumbent political party that is lobbying hard to have sole-rights to all contracts associated with the building / maintenance of this project, this includes the logistics associated with the transfer of coal from the mines to the plant which is currently holding up discussions. Trapped in the middle is a small tribal community that’s being marginalized in pursuit of economic growth.Our conversations with the residents reflects a tremendous amount of distrust of both the political leadership as well as the management at the power plant, we spoke with an elderly lady that had been part of the earlier re-settlement when the Maithon Dam was built in early 1950’s, she greeted us “have you come to kick us out of our house again”. We met a farmer supporting his family of 6 who will lose his farm and feels the money paid based on the land prices five years ago isn’t realistic to support his family under current economic conditions “onion prices are four times higher now compared to five years ago”. While another stated, “They promised us jobs, equitable housing and a community infrastructure that consisted of medical facilities and a school, we have still not seen any plans from them, why haven’t they kept their side of the bargain”
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