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Chilmari
Declaration 2005 Details
The
International Farakka Committee (IFC) in a 15-point Chilmari
Declaration (CD) on Friday, 4 March 2005 in Chilmari, Kurigram
district of Bangladesh, strongly protested the India’s river-linking
Project and vowed to resist it at any cost. The IFC also
asked India to abandon the plan terming it as a weapon of
mass destruction which plans to kill millions of people
in Bangladesh including women and children.
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Chilmari declaration was read out in the grand rally held
after the long march 2005 by Senior Assistant Secretary
General of the IFC Mr. Mohammad Hossain Khan on the Brahmaputra
bed at Chilmari River Port in Kurigram, Bangladesh. Hundreds
of thousands of people from all walks of life from all over
the country took part in the huge rally.
The
speakers expressed their grave concern over the disastrous
Indian plan for linking 37 common rivers and to divert water
from those rivers in the upstream in the Uttar Pradesh,
Rajstan, Gujrat, Hariyana, Daccan states.
As
Indian River-link Project is being implemented by Indian
Government by violating all the International Laws, regulations
and conventions of river sharing. If India implements her
river-linking project, in an adverse effect of which Bangladesh
will turn into a desert within next few years, while water
in the rivers will disappear and ground water level will
go down, intrusion of saline water and increase of salinity
in soil and groundwater, crops will not grow, ecology and
bio-diversity will be destroyed and their will be no habitation.
As
an aftermath of India’s Farakka dam has already created
serious adverse effect on Bangladesh’s south-western region,
threatening to extinct the Sundarbans, the world's largest
mangrove forest and a heritage of mankind. It has already
increased salinity as well as arsenic contamination in ground
water.
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