<b>Letters:</b> Neglect of dams

With reference to “Dams in troubled waters” (March 7), it has been rightly pointed out that a majority of the dams in India has now become obsolete in terms of construction and technology. In India dams have always been shrouded with some controversy or the other, mostly related to their construction and the displacement caused to the neighbouring habitats. What had been termed as “temples of the modern India” by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru have transformed into “ancient” temples with the passage of time. Primarily, two attempts have already been made by the government of India to come up with