Prabhat Dhakal  🌏

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[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@E20Party #e20

[Li Keith @ilikith]

@jack Not surprised, Jack. For context, the current Indian government is @BJP4India, led by mostly uneducated 60+-year-old boomers who can’t even speak decent English to have a great discussion with global tech visionaries like you.

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@LokeshVirat18K Hell NO…

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@Apple can you assist me in finding a buyer ? I am gonna sell all my ios devices and rather go with @XiaomiIndia and @SamsungIndia because now with your new os, there ain’t any difference between the devices at all.

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

…they lie you saying that the airline wasn’t agreeing on rescheduling. But the fact is that @TripifyIndia will not even opt for rescheduling. They directly go for refund. And they charge each person Rs 150 per person for no reasons. This is how they earn, by scamming people..

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

Never book ✈️ tickets thru @TripifyIndia They are simply running a scam. They show you that tickets are booked, but in reality they don’t book tickets, they simply don’t update names and any other details, resulting in a 100% cancellations. Moreover, (1/2)#tripifyscam

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@mrsinha It is while take off… not landing.

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

A short break doesn’t harm you in any way. #breakforlife

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@kalapian_ Any idea who is responsible for verifying the compensation?

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@kalapian_ Before even we go here n talk about all the policies, can we talk about the qual required to run a state?
As an employee you are asked about 10 of education qualifications for 10k paying job.
But sadly there are none such requirements for running a state.

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

Almost none knows about the policies, insurances, and other key things. They never want the public to find out those. #SikkimFlashFloods

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

The immediate outrage whenever a big disaster happens is always at the government in power at the time of the disaster.

Read on to know why it is more 'collective culpability' of a series of governments when a hydro project disaster happens... a small deep dive!

Let's start with a rough timeline of the Teesta III dam that failed in Chungthang, Sikkim and other projects planned or commissioned in the Eastern Himalayas.

Pre-1991 liberalisation, the government or the domestic financial sector did not have much bandwidth to support many mega hydro projects. Dams did get made but had to be really counted carefully. Big international development finance was cagey about supporting things in India. That changed when we opened up the economy. There was eagerness to lend to India.

Infrastructure spending is a great driver of the economic engine. The idea for all new infrastructure you see around you today was germinated in the early 90s. Principal among them was hydropower as we were a really power starved country.

As luck would have it, just then data started becoming available on how much water is available for power generation in the tributaries of the Brahmaputra. Things went into motion.

State governments told about the idea, geological studies done and policy papers were prepared. Policy papers are important as that enables lenders to see what the intent of the government is and then they can tell a government that the requirement can be met. This then gives industry confidence that money will be available to finance construction.

These things take time. Multiple changes happen to policy and we had multiple governments from 1996-2000. Everybody made their changes. Along the way they also realised that to build big infrastructure, you need big roads and bridges to get material there. It was especially difficult with the eastern himalayan region as there was nothing there in the late 1990s. First all kinds of initial highways and bridges had to be built, this was put into motion throughout the early 2000s, concurrently policy of hydro power started turning into real projects.

Early to mid 2000s, my personal view is that some greed crept in. When ambition should have been to create 10,000 MW to start with, governments directly started dreaming of 100,000 MW when the ground situation was almost 0 MW in the eastern Himalayas.

I feel this greed was partly due to impatient lenders who had been waiting for projects to lend to for almost a decade. The pot of money available to borrow had become massive. Lenders wanted to ride the Indian tiger economy.

Such a stituation is ripe for corners to be cut (cuting corners is a separate deep dive in itself). But things on the ground don't move as fast as papers on desks, however much you try, statutory approvals take their time. The best attempt was made and then some tricks. The Prime Minister in 2008 laid a foundation stone for a project which didn't have a single statutory approval. The project finally got its approvals after great tribulation during the reign of the current Prime Minister in 2023!

Governments might have changed, but I would modify an American term to describe how hydro power has had 'multi-partisan support' in India, as things were rushed through to get policy to turn into construction on the ground. Everyone wanted a piece of this massive pie.

So, if you are going to do blame game for Teesta III, the list is very long - multiple governments, bureaucracy, financiers (for lack of oversight to control cost escalation), regulatory agencies and actual hydro power companies.

What is incumbent on the government currently in power though is to thoroughly investigate the disaster, fix accountability and ensure such a sequence of events never happens again.

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

It’s a 100% man made disaster. Isn’t it??

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

'What turned Teesta into a killer? Here’s proof Sikkim flash floods are a man-made disaster'

Monideepa Banerjie @Monideepa62, senior journalist, writes

#ThePrintOpinion

https://t.co/cKqaD9djcb

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@kalapian_ @weekasing Who is going to do that job of finding out how those victims were helped or not. Who is going to check and make sure that it was insured and that people gets the assistance send for them?

[Prabhat Dhakal  🌏 @PrabhatD1990]

@Kristen_Cook_ @parikghising Well doesn’t seem you have much idea about what has been done to those rivers. It’s like there is always one or two jcb at the river shore taking gravels and sands and being loaded trucks after trucks and taken to only god knows where.

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@Indian_Rivers @kalapian_ Where is the early warnings setup?

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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Why the price of LPGcylinder is reduced before election and why not 4 years ago? What’s the specialty about the election, knocking at the door? #LPGcylinder

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