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). (...)
25 to 27 April: From Indore to ’tribal and farmers’ villages in Narmada Valley.
After the 30 days sit-in and fast by the Narmada Bachao Andolan activists in the capital, a new chapter has been opened in respect of Sardar Sarovar Dam. The movement has raised the issue of the displacement and (...)
55 protesters demanding meeting with PM arrested from front of his house: No explanation for the PM’s reluctance to suspend dam construction except bowing to Modi’s pressure
The indefinite fast continues into the 19th day even as the health condition of all three fasters
Bhagvatibai, (...)
New Delhi
MEDHA PATKAR AND OTHER NBA ACTIVISTS CONDEMN THE FALSE CHARGES FILED AGAINST THEM
MINISTERS TEAM RETURNS FROM THE VALLEY AFTER SEEING SHODDY SITUATION OF REHABILITATION. WHAT WILL THEY DECIDE NOW?
INDEPENDENT OBSERVERS SHARE THEIR REPORT OF THE TEAM’S VISIT
MASS OF NATIONAL (...)
New Delhi: Farmers, fishermen and villagers, made landless by the Narmada dam in central India, plan to intensify their stir over lack of rehabilitation. They accused officials of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh of massive corruption and intimidating villagers.
Noted activist and (...)
Amnesty International is gravely concerned by reports of excessive use of force by police officials during a peaceful demonstration on 17 December 2005 in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh state, central India, and calls on the Madhya Pradesh government to immediately set up an independent inquiry into (...)
NBA: Press Note, July1, 2005
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