Dear Saaathis,
You all must have got the word by now ...Narmada is in serious crisis ...Not just the people and the environemnt, but the very project itself today...And unjust politics is also at its peak again ...This is the last and critical leg of the SSP battle...
AHMEDABAD MIRROR
DAM! SAROVAR PROJECT A MESS
GUJARATIS INVESTED IN SARDAR SAROVAR NARMADA PROJECT PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY
AND FINANCIALLY. THEY HAVE BEEN TERRIBLY LET DOWN BY THE ADMINISTRATION
Supreme Court conditionally permits Narmada canal construction work on Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar canals subject to scrutiny and approval by Experts Committee and MoEF
February 25th, 2010
More than 3500 slum dwellers assemble outside the Collector Office, Bandra to raise the issues of their constitutional and human rights.
· MMRDA agrees to demand of slum dwellers and reduces the land required for Metro Car Shed Depot from 46 hectares to 6 hectares only.
· If decision not taken till 8th March, slum dwellers to start in-definite action- dharna.
We, the people’s movements welcome the decision of the UPA Government to declare Telangana as the 29th state in the country. The cause of Telangana is not only one of separate statehood for smaller states, but of equity and justice. It’s unfortunate that mere declaration of the State too required much agitation and struggle by the people of Telangana and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
Aam Janta challenge ‘Aam Aadmi’ Sarkar on Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill
Jantar Mantar, New Delhi: The gathering of hundreds of farmers, small agriculturalists, and farm workers, adivasis, fish workers, labourers and women in the National Capital echoed the voice and anguish of thousands of displaced people, protesting against the UPA Government’s efforts to hurriedly pass the current version of Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) Bill and demanding just and fair development.
NBA condemns as reprehensible the lathi charge, illegal arrests and seizure of
office of long-standing peaceful and lawful mass people’s struggle in the
Narmada Valley in Khandwa
Narmada Bachao Andolan severely condemns the unjust and unlawful treatment
meted out by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to the displaced people of Indira
Sagar, Omkareshwar and other dams and the activists working with them to
realize their right to lawful rehabilitation. According to information
received, activists Alok Agrawal, Kailashbhai, Kalubhai and some other
Date: 15th October, 2009
Friends,
We had a successful dharna in Delhi on 23-24th July by NAPM, NFFPFW and many other people’s movements opposing the sinister designs of the UPA government to ignore the voices of the people and bring in the LAA (Amendment) and R&R Bill in last session of the Parliament.
NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN
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62, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Badwani, Madhya Pradesh - 451551, Ph: 07290-222464, E-mail: nba.medha@gmail.com
13th September, 2009
NARMADA IN FULL SPATE AGAIN