Page "Loktak Lake" Paragraph 55

Even though the Ithai barrage and its operation by NHPC have contributed to the deterioration of the lake environment and the people around it, the mind set of the people ( conditioned by the water level and submergence ) that operation of the project needs drastic change to solve the lakes ' problems had prevented examination of feasible alternate solutions, given the situation that drastic change of NHPC approach to operate the project was not feasible.