# 18
28.9.16
Aspects have changed over the years; acquired new, serious dimensions & cause pain. Let them not be ignored under any circumstance. There be no permanence of wrongs. The past be studied so that same mistakes do not keep repeating in future. But the awards etc not become blue print for ever.
India has, will thrive on strengths of agriculture. This evergreen area not be ridiculed. Agrarian resources not be used for other purposes the way it is happening today. Bengaluru is a cosmopolitan, with people from all over & many water wastages are also taking place. Thus, policies should ensure that Bengaluru stands on its own & meets the water demands of the populace, its activities in its own way & not on the sacred River that caters to the green gold, agricultural outputs (It be mentioned that probably some system will be in place by 30TH Sep 2018 or so, if work starts on Friday, the 30TH Sep 2016 or as soon as possible there after).
Water, land, even air, forests, animals etc be made part of national property & not anyone's, any state's, any govt's, any body's (organisation, govt office, whatever, whatever) fiefdom. They are no-man's, no Gvt's, God's property. They are nature's food, space etc. Let them remain so for ever & ever. Mankind & his endeavors be barred from occupying every inch of planet earth.
Let it be a National policy that all parties that expect a share in any receipe be made to work for it. Let rewards be proportionate to contribution. If a party doesn't work/contribute, there be no force to give the receipe to that party immaterial of factors like river flows in that region etc. There be no right conferred on any party to enjoy the receipe on any other count neither, whatever it be, whatever. There be no rights conferred on any party. Thus, both K'taka & T'Nadu be made to take responsibility for each others' welfare right in the concept. - This could then be used to evolve a National Water Policy.
Let there be something equivalent of 'Carbon credit', say 'WATER CREDIT'. There are lot of water conservation, recycling, rain water harvesting etc techniques. The party has to bring in water / secure it in someway. The free India would assure free, unhindered, fair opportunities to all parties & all parties can work at free will in the free India, immaterial of language etc. The moment a party gets water, it gains some TRADABLE CREDITS. Even enabling water flow in from one area to another be given some points that can be redeemed.
Bidar is in news today as floods has inundadated it now. AP & parts of Maharashtra too are already in floods today. The Cauvery basin might have lesser rains this season. These suggest that those waters could have been channelised off from those areas & people of other areas could have been benefitted of that excess water that is posing challenges to the people of flooded areas. Why all that, even forests & plains need water for its greens & these areas could be used as water table feeders etc. This is what has been happening in the natural scheme of things thus far. Nothing of it is happening now a days, since 40-50 years perhaps. Water did not flow out off affected areas into parched / required zones as there are no channels & people, greenery of all the areas are suffering with more water or with deficient water. The water is being condemned & booted out along the gutters!
Well, satellite imagery will identify the best suited natural path for water to flow from any area to any other areas. A route map can be readied in a mere week or so. Once the draft is in place, work can start & the plan can be evaluated, reevaluated at various levels, by various teams; modified, moderated etc & plans/routes etc can be altered in due course. Today, digging a trench for a stretch of a few hundred kms is relatively easy, just a matter of few weeks & that in itself would do quiet a lot of difference in these cases. (It be remembered that no man's areas are natural habitats for several life forms. Life forms move around day & night for food, safety etc. Thus, the trenches be shallow & not too deep. Its depth, breadth; form per se be such that the trenches do not become barriers at any stretch. Let no life form get caught, killed due to mankind's trenches. Let there be multiple mini trenches in multiple directions. But, in facilitating human activity, the life forms that do not speak not be inconvenienced, confused, choked in any way. Let it be borne in mind that every life form has senses, feelings & are more sincere to God than mankind. Factually, life forms are all God forms. Let none of them curse mankind for the sudden changes that disable, choke them).
Next, THE CVAV-B PROJECT WILL SOLVE MUCH OF THE WOES IN THE ISSUE THAT HAS BEEN BLOWN UP. THE WHOLE OF INDIA, THE CVAV-B BELT IN THIS SPECIFIC CONTEXT, BE RE-PREPARED, RE-ORIENTED TO THRIVE ON AGRICULTURE, NATURAL FORESTS, WATER BODIES ETC. - In this context, the Indian society's 'Vaanaprastha' assumes great importance. People, not one or two, whole masses, people of every family have to sense the difficulties, use their brains, hearts, hands & prepare grounds for their generations ahead. Is every creature including the greenery not drinking water, breathing? Then, it should be everyone's duty to replenish them. While every constituent of the nature does this faithfully, it is mankind that has gone astray, rather headstrong. One should not keep using SUVs, AC etc etc all life & die out one day; while some others work to conserve every bit of the mother nature. The Indian school of thought be revived & moderated if need be, to suit the present day needs, mindset etc. But, forests, wild life, birds, water bodies etc not be ignored in the blue print under any circumstance.
In the same breathe, brick & mortar, whatever it be, be stopped / curtailed v.v.v.v. drastically & the entire manpower, resources be REDEPLOYED OFF THE CONSTRUCTION, CEMENT, BRICK & MORTAR INDUSTRY into other, perpetually self sustainable areas & agriculture be given top most prominence.
All said & done, the unsaid disease is that people of both sides want Gvt job quotas in the other's bastion & various lieders enter into secret pacts. ---- The hullah bullah diverts the attention & the deals come through silently without drawing any attention. Someone is made to lose everything, silently. Someone else gains a lot silently. This has been happening all along, all over, in the southern states specially. This unsaid be ridden off fully & the Gvts be banned from accessioning any more areas, resources (forests, mountains, water bodies, plains etc etc etc), gazetting them & converting them into Gvt job this or Gvt job that; distributing them & burdening the already burdened society, universe with dead weights & cut throat species that call themselves peeeeeeeermanents. The very concept is sickening.
There are many noble hearted, capable, experienced great people, technocrats, leaders, philanthropists etc in both the states & across the country. For that matter, even the NRIs & the world community too would only be too glad to help great causes. The Centre & state govts could pool in their resources too. Let the issue not be made big & bigger. Let solutions be worked up in the wake of the opportunity that has got presented to the parties in the case & the Centre. Let each side put up positive plans / projects, commitments on investments, requests for funds / help etc before the SC on Friday, the 30TH instant.
Let the SC not be told of the same sickening things: Rights, riparian, river flowing in the state drought etc etc. Well all that is heard & let them be burried. The people of the States have long standing relationships. They will bear the troubles, work up juggads & co-operate in EMERGENCY measures for this year & probably 2017 too (if the June-Aug rains fail again). But let there be a new air into the case. Let the Centre's SG, state counsels etc add Science & technology options / projects in the deliberations. Let the SC then be caught unawares, all amidst so much of options that it would be hard for it to decide the best of the options / amalgamating the options, commitments into one single workable solution in single sitting. Let it be happiness galore. Let the SC itself be happied so much that elderly blessings, awards, cajoles will flow by in that sitting & over extended sittings if it were to happen. But let it be the beginning of a new water regime, a new beginning itself as far as public policies are concerned. Let there be cheers to all those who want to work, work as much & reap rewards honestly, dignifiedly.