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
Nitya Jacob
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Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, World Bank
India

 Compromise marks talks on Narmada project

The government and anti dam activists gave ground during the first ever talks on the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Nitya Jacob
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Narmada, Narmada Valley Project, Interstate Disputes, Rehabilitation
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
Nitya Jacob
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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
Mukul Sharma
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation
Economy

 Time running out in Manibeli

AFTER struggling for eight long years against the massive Narmada dam, the people of the valley are still caught between the devil and the deep blue sea -- in this case, the threat of submergence on

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rural Habitat, Rehabilitation, Aid, Human Rights, World Bank
India

 Narmada review: Break or breakthrough?

The Narmada Bachao Andolan has forced a reconsideration of the Sardar Sarovar Project. But with Gujarat opposed to any review and support for NBA eroding, the talks may turn out to be the calm between storms

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
Anumita Roychowdhury, Nitya Jacob
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Human Rights, NGO, Gujarat
India

 The personal price of protest

Pratibha Shinde, a Narmada Bachao Andolan activist, was among those arrested on June 3 for trying to prevent the demolition of Keshubhai's hut in Manibeli. She was released on June 14. Her story:

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Human Rights, NGO, Gujarat
India

 How the NBA wants to discuss the SSP

Medha Patkar suggests the review of the Sardar Sarovar Project be undertaken by both pro and anti dam groups and be completed in three months.

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Human Rights, NGO, Gujarat
India

 Human rights violations listed by NBA

January 30, 1989: Official Secrets Act imposed on 10 villages around the dam site; 18 protesting activists and 500 villagers arrested. February 22: Medha Patkar and 8,000 others arrested near

Publication Date: 
14/07/1993
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Human Rights, NGO, Gujarat
India

 The Manibeli mess

Undeterred by a police crackdown and the threat of submergence, protestors in Manibeli have refused to leave. Last year, the rising Narmada waters had come close to submerging the village. This

Publication Date: 
29/06/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Human Rights

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