In Response to Indefinite Fast at Chikhalda by 11 People of Narmada Valley and Medha Patkar, on the 12th Day Police Forces Violently Lift Medha Patkar, 4 Women and a Man from the protest site.
URGENT ALERT!
IN RESPONSE TO INDEFINITE FAST AT CHIKHALDA BY 11 PEOPLE OF NARMADA VALLEY AND MEDHA (...)
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, D Raja, Bhagwant Mann, Jitendra Choudhary, Aruna Roy, Hannan Mollah, Anie Raja, and many others on solidarity fast at Jantar Mantar
Yogendra Yadav, Alok Agarwal, Sandeep Pandey, and Dr Sunilam end their solidarity fast on second day
A team of doctors conduct medical (...)
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee expresses complete solidarity with those on hunger strike at Narmada Valley to safe 40,000 families. PKRC, a net work of peasant organisation and member of La Via Campisena, demands from Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh to complete (...)
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif resigned from prime ministership after the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s ruling last week which declared him dishonest. Many suggest that the establishment played its invisible role in the whole episode because the civil-military relations were not smooth. After Mr. (...)
Medha Patkar starts indefinite fast in MP, Narmada supporters protest at Jantar Mantar
Narmada Supporters hold protest at Jantar Mantar in Solidarity with Medha Patkar and people of Narmada Valley sitting on Indefinite Mass Fast.
By closing the gates of Sardar Sarovar Dam to final height of (...)
After an unrelenting administration has refused to listen to protesters on a 17 day relay fast at 21 locations in the Narmada Valley, the leader of the NBA will go on an indefinite fast.
Medha Patkar The fast is in protest against the aggressive push of the Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (...)
2,50,000 People to Face Illegal Submergence in Narmada Valley
Sardar Sarovar Dam Height Raised in Violation of Law - Non-compliance of NWDT Award and SC 2000 Order
Supporters of Narmada Bachao Andolan Protest the Decision
New Delhi, June 13 : Yesterday was a black day for India, injustice (...)
Press Note
9th June 2014
Narmada Dam Oustees Demand Legal, Just Rehabilitation First!
Adivasis and Activists Warn the Maharashtra Government Against Permitting Completion of Sardar Sarovar Dam
Today a large delegation of adivasis affected by Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSP) in the Nandurbar (...)
The proposed 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Sadhu Bet island near the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat brings to the fore many environmental and livelihood issues.
THE site is stunning. The land falls away in an 80-metre-steep bank towards the Narmada riverbed. On the far bank, (...)
Decision to raise height of SSP illegal and political conspiracy Central Authorities cannot permit drowning of 2 lakh population without rehabilitation.
The decision to permit raising of the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam from the present height of 122 mts to the final height of 138.68 mts, (...)
As “Occupy movements” are beginning to emerge as the latest form of protest across the world, tribals of Alirajpur have started an “occupy movement” of their own.
For the last three and a half weeks, over tribals displaced due to the Sardar Sarovar dam Project (SSP) have been occupying and tilling (...)
Taken from the website of the Friends of River Narmada, July 11, 2010 but the articles below have been written earlier – sometimes much earlier (e.g. 2002 or 2006...).
The controversy over large dams on the River Narmada has come to symbolise the struggle for a just and equitable society in (...)
Condemn Exploitation of natural resources by elites and corporates Assert the rights of fish workers affected by the Upper Wardha Dam Support their indefinite fast and long-pending just demands Write to them in solidarity and the Concerned Ministries for justice The struggle by the (...)
Narmada Bachao Andolan 2, Sai Nagar, Mata Chowk, Khandwa, M.P. Phone : 094259 -28007, 094253 - 94606 E-mail : nobigdam bsnl.in
URGENT APPEAL FOR SUPPORT
16th June 2007
Dear friends,
Today is the 13th day of the indefinite dharna at Khandwa of the people of the Indira Sagar and (...)
Mr. Modi’s dedication, not of benefits or rehabilitation nor the Project but merely power turbines, is a political farce.
SSP stopped at 122 mts cannot reach the full height since rehabilitation is not in sight.
Centre must review the project with socio-economic-environmental impacts (...)
Narmada Bachao AndolanJail Road, MandleshwarDistrict Khargone, M.PTel : 09425094606, 09425928007E-mail : nobigdam sancharnet.in
Bhopal,
Around 5000 people of around 400 villages affected by 6 large dams being built in the Narmada valley - Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar, Maheshwar, Man, Veda and (...)
’How to Confront State Violence? Dilemma for Peaceful Movements’.
“A joint offensive by the bureaucrats in the Union government - including those in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the corporate powers and multilateral financial agencies, encouraged by the unconstitutional attitude of the (...)
Over several days of conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, followed up with written responses, Arundhati Roy clarifies the complex, vexed questions surrounding the Narmada.
The media has been playing the Supreme Court Verdict on the dam as a victory for all sides. How do you read it? What does (...)
NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN (NBA) to intensify the Campaign when ’Democracy’ is shying away!!
The Narmada case of 35 000 families, already affected and to be affected if the dam is built to 122m, pleaded before the Supreme Court of India today, by the 48 representative oustees from Madhya (...)
As she broke her 20-day fast last night, surrounded by hundreds of supporters, Medha Patkar was very clear that this was no victory. Rather, she was breaking the fast to intensify the fight - the two-week fight for truth and justice that the Supreme Court has imposed on the Andolan (Movement). (...)
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