China has undertaken a massive project for diverting the river Brahmaputra to its arid northern areas by constructing water storages, canals, dams and pumping stations, a senior BJP leader said today.
China has undertaken a massive project for diverting the river Brahmaputra to its arid northern areas by constructing water storages, canals, dams and pumping stations, a senior BJP leader said today.
Construction of eleven water storages, two canals, five dams and pumping stations before the Great Band in southern China where the Brahmaputra enters India envisaged to divert the river's waters, BJP Assam unit leader Ashokanand Singhal told the media in Guwahati.
Stating that the Brahmaputra used to provide 78.1 billion cubic metres of water during the monsoons in India and 56.12 bcm on non-monsoon days, he claimed that the river flow has been reduced by 30% during the monsoons and provided only 60 per cent the rest of the year.
He also claimed that China has constructed two reservoirs of 42 million cubic metres and 31 cu m at the Great Band area, 60 to 70km from Gogring village in Arunachal Pradesh.
Contrary to China's claimed that they were the result of landslides, the reservoirs were man-made for power projects, Singhal said on the basis of Google Maps and other sources.
The Chinese government was also building a five star hotel and a cantonment for an army division at Nyingehi, 16km away from Band to which road and rail link has been constructed, he said.
"China is planning to bring water to the Tibet plateau by pumping and connecting tunnels to the north-west provinces through different sources. The area includes two autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Ningxia and three provinces of Qiunghai, Gansu and Shaanxi," Singhal said.
He said that the Chinese were also planning to block the waters of rivers Indus and Sutlej. Dams and water storages have been built on the Indus and Sindhu river at Jiele near Ngari Gar county and at Sanbo towards Soutg, besides the Tashigongon power project.
A barrage and a bridge were under construction on Sutlej river in China's Zhanda county, Singhal said.
Appealing to all the Northeast states to pressurise the Centre to raise India's concern in the international fora, the BJP leader wanted prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh who represents the region in Parliament to take up the issue with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during his upcoming visit to India.
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