Mapithel Dam: The sorrow of Tumukhong village

The told and untold miseries engrossed in the construction of the Mapithel Dam over the Thoubal River in Manipur has attracted much of the international attention. In last visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and Land Rights, Miloon Kothari, in his meeting with the affected community at Thoyee Community Hall, on 25th September 2016, remarked that the history of Mapithel Dam serves as the glaring example of the government’s failure to respect the people’s right, a fallacy of the government to take into account what it should.

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The told and untold miseries engrossed in the construction of the Mapithel Dam over the Thoubal River in Manipur has attracted much of the international attention. In last visit of UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and Land Rights, Miloon Kothari, in his meeting with the affected community at Thoyee Community Hall, on 25th September 2016, remarked that the history of Mapithel Dam serves as the glaring example of the government’s failure to respect the people’s right, a fallacy of the government to take into account what it should.

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