In a bid to formulate a roadmap for the revival of Bindal and Rispana streams of Doon Valley, District Magistrate Ravinath Raman has called a detailed brainstorming session with all stakeholders on Saturday. The meeting was called by the DM on the advice of Chief Minister Harish Rawat who was in turn, repeatedly requested to take some affirmative action on this identity issue of Dehradun by Doon Based student-activist group, Making a Difference by Being the Difference (MAD).
For this high profile meeting, the District Magistrate had requested MAD to provide him a comprehensive report on all possible efforts of the group as regards the revival of streams and all its sources of knowledge to enhance the administration’s future plan of action in this regard.
In response to this request, MAD members compiled all their previous efforts and readied a 98-page dossier which includes various letters written in endorsement of the rivers’ revival project by Senior Politicians, the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee report on this matter, memoirs of the British surveyors on the State of the two streams at that time, ancient photos of the two streams contrasted with their current and present condition, Bindal and Rispana status report prepared after trekking over 40 km by foot on these two streams, contemporary river restoration successful models in other districts of India and abroad in Finland, Germany and UK, a view from the source conditions of these two streams as reported by the Rajpur Community Initiative to MAD.