Concerns on the Deceleration in Indian Preparedness to meet Water and Energy Challenges with Adequate Dams Gopalakrishnan M.1, FNAE President, New Delhi Associate Centre of World Water Council 1Former Secretary General, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. Former President of Indian Water Resources Society. Former Member, Central Water Commission and Ex officio Addl. Secretary to Government of India in Ministry of Water Resources, TAC Member, WWAP/World Water Development Reports 3&4, Independent WRD&M Senior Consultant 2World Commission on Dams 2000: A Report on the "Dams and Development" Online published on 12 December, 2012. Abstract Preamble: Can one imagine a place where about 94% of property owners/98% of tenants had no electricity, 30% of owners and 41% of tenants as well had no toilets or outhouses, 65% of owners/78% of tenants had to go 300 yards at least for fetching some water, more than 90% had no lighting and lack refrigeration substantial loss 25% of meat and other food, nearly about 60% of the horsepower required was from horses and just some 6% from electric stations, most living on subsistence farming, over used ruined soil, flooding being a serious menace, repetitive? There were just 8% owners/3% tenants owning radios, less the 50% of owners/25% tenants read newspapers and less then 26% of owners/16% tenants own cars or trucks? This was a not any remote place in Africa or inaccessible part of any continent. In 1935, this was the Tennessee Valley of the most admired nation, United States of India,! And it was a European traveler who recorded that (to quote) Top |