the project is a joint venture with 51% central government stake and 49% state control. Despite repeated attempts -NBA
Dear friend,
You have always lent your voice to the pro-Narmada movement and a moment
for solidarity has come again. The situation at the Omkareshwar-dam site is very serious as the voices, land and and livelihood of the people are being
drowned.
We urge you to pledge your support in a petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the project is a joint venture with 51% central government stake
and 49% state control. Despite repeated attempts, we have not received any
response from CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Attached below is a petition about the same. Your signature would mean a
lot, and help change the discourse.
Please reply only to this email address (nba.khandwa@
<nba.khandwa@gmail.com>gmail.
the message to as many people as possible.
The Prime Minister,
Government of India, Delhi
The people of the Narmada valley are in battle once again, this time, for
their land rights and against the forcible and illegal submergence being
brought in the Omkareshwar dam by the Madhya Pradesh government and the
project company NHDC Limited since the 11th of April 2015. The Jal
satyagraha of the oustees of the Omkareshwar dam against the illegal
submergence has now entered its 23rd day, as scores of oustees accompanied
by Alok Agarwal, senior activist of Narmada Bachao Andolan have been
standing in the waters in Village Ghogalgaon, Khandwa district for the last
22 days. Hundreds of other oustees from the affected villages of the
Omkareshwar dam are also protesting at the site. The bodies and skin of the
Jal satyagrahis has started disintegrating, their health has started
deteriorating and yet you have not ageed to their demands, or even agreed
to meet them.
The Supreme Court in its judgment dated 11.05.2011 had directed the
authorities to allot a minimum of 2 ha. of land or provide a grant for purchase of a minimum of 2 ha. of land to each displaced family as per the
rehabilitation policy, and hundreds of the oustees have refunded the
compensation which had given to them earlier by keeping them in the dark
about their land entitlements. The State government and the NHDC Limited
have neither allotted land nor provided grant to the oustees. In order to refund the compensation and get land, the oustees raised money from money-lenders at as much as 2-3% interest per month. Since the project
company NHDC Limited has not allotted land to the oustees, interest on the
loans has piled up and oustees are now in a massive debt trap. However
after taking back crores of rupees of compensation back from the oustees
instead of allotting land, the State government and authorities have now
submerged the lands of many oustees.
For example, in December 2012, after the Apex Court judgment, aged Dali land-holder couple Tarabai and Rajaram Sikdar, borrowed Rs. 6 lakhs from
money-lenders and refunded their compensation to the NHDC Limited. In the
last 2.5 years, their interest burden has risen up to Rs. 4 lakhs. However
the State Government and the NHDC Limited has not given them either 2 ha.
of land or grant for purchase of land. On the 11th of April 2015, the
Government submerged Tarabai’s land in the submergence area by raising the water level of the Omkareshwar dam up to 191 meters.
In this grave situation, we - as concerned citizens of the country - demand
the following:
1. Immediate lowering of water level in Omkareshwar dam from 191 meters to
189 meters, and no increase until the Resettlement & Rehabilitation7 of the
oustees is complete.
2. Provision of a grant for purchase of land for land with a minimum 2 ha.
of land at current market prices.
3.The oustees who are presently being forced to resettle in forest villages
or stony sites, where no employment is available and house construction is
not possible, should be resettled at R&R sites where their other villagers have been earlier resettled, or next to where they are allotted/purchase
agricultural lands.
We hope that you will strictly follow the golden rule of rehabilitation first and then submergence and will act to resolve the present crisis.
Yours
(Signatories names shall appear here)
--
*Narmada Bachao Andolan* 2, Sai Nagar, Mata Chowk,
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh -450 001
Telefax : 0733 - 2228318
E-mail : nbakhandwa@gmail.com
Dear friend,
You have always lent your voice to the pro-Narmada movement and a moment
for solidarity has come again. The situation at the Omkareshwar-dam site is very serious as the voices, land and and livelihood of the people are being
drowned.
We urge you to pledge your support in a petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the project is a joint venture with 51% central government stake
and 49% state control. Despite repeated attempts, we have not received any
response from CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Attached below is a petition about the same. Your signature would mean a
lot, and help change the discourse.
Please reply only to this email address (nba.khandwa@
<nba.khandwa@gmail.com>gmail.
the message to as many people as possible.
The Prime Minister,
Government of India, Delhi
The people of the Narmada valley are in battle once again, this time, for
their land rights and against the forcible and illegal submergence being
brought in the Omkareshwar dam by the Madhya Pradesh government and the
project company NHDC Limited since the 11th of April 2015. The Jal
satyagraha of the oustees of the Omkareshwar dam against the illegal
submergence has now entered its 23rd day, as scores of oustees accompanied
by Alok Agarwal, senior activist of Narmada Bachao Andolan have been
standing in the waters in Village Ghogalgaon, Khandwa district for the last
22 days. Hundreds of other oustees from the affected villages of the
Omkareshwar dam are also protesting at the site. The bodies and skin of the
Jal satyagrahis has started disintegrating, their health has started
deteriorating and yet you have not ageed to their demands, or even agreed
to meet them.
The Supreme Court in its judgment dated 11.05.2011 had directed the
authorities to allot a minimum of 2 ha. of land or provide a grant for purchase of a minimum of 2 ha. of land to each displaced family as per the
rehabilitation policy, and hundreds of the oustees have refunded the
compensation which had given to them earlier by keeping them in the dark
about their land entitlements. The State government and the NHDC Limited
have neither allotted land nor provided grant to the oustees. In order to refund the compensation and get land, the oustees raised money from money-lenders at as much as 2-3% interest per month. Since the project
company NHDC Limited has not allotted land to the oustees, interest on the
loans has piled up and oustees are now in a massive debt trap. However
after taking back crores of rupees of compensation back from the oustees
instead of allotting land, the State government and authorities have now
submerged the lands of many oustees.
For example, in December 2012, after the Apex Court judgment, aged Dali land-holder couple Tarabai and Rajaram Sikdar, borrowed Rs. 6 lakhs from
money-lenders and refunded their compensation to the NHDC Limited. In the
last 2.5 years, their interest burden has risen up to Rs. 4 lakhs. However
the State Government and the NHDC Limited has not given them either 2 ha.
of land or grant for purchase of land. On the 11th of April 2015, the
Government submerged Tarabai’s land in the submergence area by raising the water level of the Omkareshwar dam up to 191 meters.
In this grave situation, we - as concerned citizens of the country - demand
the following:
1. Immediate lowering of water level in Omkareshwar dam from 191 meters to
189 meters, and no increase until the Resettlement & Rehabilitation7 of the
oustees is complete.
2. Provision of a grant for purchase of land for land with a minimum 2 ha.
of land at current market prices.
3.The oustees who are presently being forced to resettle in forest villages
or stony sites, where no employment is available and house construction is
not possible, should be resettled at R&R sites where their other villagers have been earlier resettled, or next to where they are allotted/purchase
agricultural lands.
We hope that you will strictly follow the golden rule of rehabilitation first and then submergence and will act to resolve the present crisis.
Yours
(Signatories names shall appear here)
*Narmada Bachao Andolan* 2, Sai Nagar, Mata Chowk,
Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh -450 001
Telefax : 0733 - 2228318
E-mail : nbakhandwa@gmail.com
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