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50 years ago, when the Sardar Sarovar Dam was conceived by the government of India on the river Narmada, there was little or no knowledge about the widespread ecological crisis that it would bring about and disrupt the lives of lakhs of people living on its banks, forests and valleys since thousands of years. Narmada Bachao Andolan has been on the forefront of the struggle of the people of the Narmada against forceful and unjust displacement. Once again, in the year 2017, the government is on a warpath to uproot people by increasing the height of the dam without giving compensation or rehabilitation.
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Health condition of Medha Patkar and 11 oustees reach critical stage after fasting continuously for 9 days. National and international pressure mounts.
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| Massive support to the satyagrahis of Narmada Bachao Andolan from eminent political leaders, intellectuals, and citizens from all over the world.
At the peak of the non-violent people’s movement against unjust displacement without rehabilitation, CM of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan yet again pays a lip service instead of talking directly to the movement.
18 MPs from various political party write letter to prime minister urging immediate intervention and asking him to send representatives to Chikhalda village and talk to Medha Patkar and others to ensure the complete and just rehabilitation of more than 40000 families Narmada Valley affected from Sardar Sarovar project.
Sharad Yadav, Arvind Kejriwal, Sitaram yechury separately issue separate statement in support of Narmada bachao andolan and asked Medha Patkar and 11 others people of Narmada Valley to end their fast. Many political leaders, MPs, social activists, retired judges, journalists and representatives of people’s organisation also wrote to prime minister urging for immediate intervention and immediately opening the gates of Sardar Sarovar Dam till complete and just rehabilitation of more than 40000 families living in Sardar Sarovar affected region of Narmada Valley.
Hundreds of protest already happened in different parts of country in support and solidarity with people of Narmada Valley demanding complete and just rehabilitation. but the Government of Madhya Pradesh shamelessly putting false claims of complete rehabilitation again and again without listening to the movement and the people of Narmada Valley still living in the submergence area.
Yesterday night a team of government doctors which included senior doctor, lab technician and an assistant visited and conducted medical check up of Medha Patkar and 11 other people of Narmada Valley sitting on indefinite fast since last 9 days. As per the doctors, health of all the people is deteriorating very fast. The blood pressure is very low and they also found ketone in the blood.
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| Lies Lies More Lies!!
Yesterday Dhar collector Shriman Shukla, who was on the visit to Nisarpur, had claimed that Rehabilitation of 8 villages have been completed out of 50 villages, which are Jal Kheda and Patavar from manawar tehsil, nimbola, Gulati and Balwara from Dharampuri tehsil, Sisgaon, Dehar, and Dasaanda from Kukshi. All these villages were shown out of submergence from back water level in 2008 due to that there are very few houses under submergence region as per government data. As per the ground reports there are still 10 houses in JhalaKheda yet to be rehabilitated whereas the rehabilitation site of Dasanda village has not been made yet. Then where has the reahabilitation happened without any rehabilitation site? Few families were rehabilitated in Gujarat long back. 7 houses of Deher Village are still left to be rehabilitated. Now the question is, why the government always putting false claims of complete rehabilitation again and again when the ground realities are different?
Yesterday Jyotiraditya Scindia MP from Guna had raised the issue in Lok Sabha and asked why the Madhya Pradesh government is illegally drowning the lakhs of people in Narmada Valley and forcefully evicting them without complete and just rehabilitation? Why the government is selectively picking excerpts from Supreme Court judgement and not following the spirit of the whole judgement? To which, Narendra Singh Tomar, the Panchayat Raj Minister replied and said that the Madhya Pradesh government is following the supreme court orders which says that the submergence area should be evicted by 31st July and all the compliances have been done as per the orders. On one hand, Rajneesh Vaishya from Narmada Valley Development Authority, giving figures of 7010 families yet to be rehabilitated where as on the other hand Narendra Singh Tomar is claiming for complete rehabilitation. The different statements about the rehabilitation by State authorities has proved the realities of rehabilitation in Narmada Valley. Nobody knows the correct details, the whole government is playing the game of numbers with the oustees of Sardar Sarovar project.
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| #SaveNarmada #MedhaFasting
Outraged by zero dialogue from the MP Govt., false statement by MP Govt. ministers and deteriorating health of fasting NBA activists including Medha Patkar, Narmada oustees took out a rally today in Barwani and burnt the effigy of state CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in front of district collectorate. Protesters warned the local administration of dire consequences if lives of the fasting activists harmed in the absence of any dialogue from the government.
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| Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, D Raja, Bhagwant Mann, Jitendra Choudhary, Aruna Roy, Hannan Mollah, Anie Raja, and many others join the solidarity fast at Jantar Mantar, Yogendra Yadav, Alok Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey, and Dr Sunilam end their solidarity fast on second day.
Sharad Yadav, Janata Dal United; Sitaram yechury, CPM; D Raja, CPI; Raju Shetty, Shetkari Sanghatana; Jitendra Choudhary, CPM; Mohammad Salim, CPM; Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav, RJD; Kaushlendra Kumar, JDU; P Karunakar, CPM; P L Sarimath, CPM; M B Ragesh, CPM; Shankar Prasad Dutta, CPM; Joe George; Dharamvir Gandhi, AAP; Dr. N Sampath; C N Jayadevan; Bhagwant Maan; Tariq Anwar, Nationalist Congress Party; and more than 50 emienets and representatives of people’s organisation have appealed to Medha Patkar and 11 others of Narmada Valley to end their fast, ask Prime Minister to intervene immediately. |
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| Hundreds of protest already happened in different parts of country in support and solidarity with people of Narmada Valley demanding complete and just rehabilitation. but the Government of Madhya Pradesh shamelessly putting false claims of complete rehabilitation again and again without listening to the movement and the people of Narmada Valley still living in the submergence area. |
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