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 Dying for a lake [1]

"i am proud to die for the rights of the fisherfolk.' These were the last words Bacchanidhi Behera uttered before he succumbed to a police bullet in the firing in Orissa's Sarano village in Khurda district on the night of May 29-30.

Chilka Lake is Asia's largest brackishwater water body and the waters have for years been a cause of tension between the two rival groups

Publication Date: 
29/06/1999
Down to Earth [2]
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Chilka [3], Aquaculture [4], Fisherfolk [5], Conflicts [6], Public Participation [7], Orissa (Odisha) [8]
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