Displacement

Bangladesh ravaged by floods

Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy

Publication Date:

30/08/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Monsoons, Floods, Flood Control, Displacement, World Bank, Bangladesh

Economy

Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers

Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan NBA , which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project SSP on the Narmada river, has won a major battle by getting the Union government to discuss the Rs 13,500 crore dam for the first time ever with her grou

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Author(s): Nitya Jacob

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930731

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, World Bank

Economy

Here I stand, come hell or high water

Forty five year old Keshubhai of Manibeli has come to symbolise not only all that is wrong with state power, but also the Narmada Bachao Andolan's campaign against civil rights violations by the Maharashtra government. His hut, the first that would have b

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Author(s): Nitya Jacob

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930731

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Maharashtra

Environment

Dual approach to dam projects : Narmada Maiya

Narmada Maiya (Mother Narmada) is a curious mix of reportage, diary, report, and analysis on the much-debated Narmada Valley dam project. Originally written in Marathi in 1990, it has now been

Publication Date:

30/07/1993

Author(s): Mukul Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930731

pp:

0

Tags:

Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation

India

Taken at the flood

In a significant ruling in April this year, the Gujarat High Court clarified its stay on the eviction of inhabitants in the Sardar Sarovar project catchment area also prohibits removal of villagers

Publication Date:

30/05/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Floods, Displacement, Rehabilitation, India

India

Submerged by dams

Many international organisations have expressed concern for the people to be displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada in Gujarat, but the fate of those already ousted by other

Publication Date:

14/04/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rural Habitat, Migration, Displacement, Rehabilitation, India

Air Pollution

Forced resettlement violates people's rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution that will have direct bearing on the controversial Narmada clam in Gujarat.

Publication Date:

14/04/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Aid, Human Rights, UN, World Bank

Industry

Rainforest malady

THE BRAZILIAN government swung into action recently to evict thousands of gold-panners from a 94,000- sq-kin Yanomami reserve near the Venezuelan border to save the 9,000 members of South

Publication Date:

14/04/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Tropical Forests, Malaria, Displacement, Tribals, Epidemics, Brazil

Poverty

National parks are luxury in Third World

KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on environment and sustainable development. Currently involved with intensive case studies in Brazil, central Amer

Publication Date:

30/03/1993

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19930331

pp:

0

Tags:

Displacement, National Parks, Rural Development, UN, Developing Countries