{"id":85695,"date":"2019-07-30T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:25:07","slug":"dam-safety-bill-runs-into-opposition-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dam-safety-bill-runs-into-opposition-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Safety Bill runs into Opposition criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Opposition\nparties have criticised the Dam Safety Bill, 2019. They have opined that the\nbill would undermine the powers of State governments since Water is a State\nsubject. The Dam Safety Bill aims to put uniform safety measures for dams\nacross India. <\/li><li>The\nBill provides for the constitution of a National Committee on Dam Safety. Functions\nof the Committee include: a) formulating policies and regulations regarding dam\nsafety standards and prevention of dam failures, and b) analysing causes of\nmajor dam failures and suggesting changes in dam safety practices.<\/li><li>The\nBill also provides for establishing a National Dam Safety Authority as a\nregulatory body to implement the policy. The bill also provides for\nestablishing State Dam safety Organizations (SDSO).<\/li><li>Functions\nof the SDSOs include: a) keeping perpetual surveillance, inspecting, and\nmonitoring the operation and maintenance of dams, b) keeping a database of all\ndams, and c) recommending safety measures to owners of dams.<\/li><li>The\nBill lays the onus of the dam safety on the dam owner and requires the owners\nof specified dams to provide a dam safety unit in each dam.<\/li><li>The\nBill provides penalties for commission and omission of certain acts. Offenders\nwill be punishable with imprisonment of up to one year or a fine, or both.<\/li><li>As\nper National Register for Large Dams (NRLD), there are 5,254 large dams in\noperation and another 447 under-construction. Further there are numerous small\nand medium dams. <\/li><li>The\nstructural and operational safety of these dams is crucial because about 75% of\nlarge dams are more than 25 years old and about 164 dams are more than 100\nyears old.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have criticised the Dam Safety Bill, 2019. They have opined that the bill would undermine the powers of State governments since Water is a State subject. The Dam Safety Bill aims to put uniform safety measures for dams across India. The Bill provides for the constitution of a National Committee on Dam Safety.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dam-safety-bill-runs-into-opposition-criticism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dam Safety Bill runs into Opposition criticism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3099],"class_list":["post-85695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-dam-safety-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775546,"cached_date":1704880501},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}