Medha Patkar

Ariticle Courtesy: National Alliance of Peoples' Movements

Dear Saaathis,

You all must have got the word by now ...Narmada is in serious crisis ...Not just the people and the environemnt, but the very project itself today...And unjust politics is also at its peak again ...This is the last and critical leg of the SSP battle...

Thousands of us are to embark on an indefinite mass action of Narmada from April 11th and sit before the Narmada Control Authority from the 13th at Indore. The situation is very serious and highly politicized, since even as there are 2 lakh adiavasis, farmers, fish workers, labourers yet to be rehabilitated in the submergence area, only corruption has increased ten-fold and gross environmental non-compliance has been exposed by the latest Devender Pandey Committee.

This book published by the National Alliance of People's Movements & Initiatives,  is a  collection of articles by experts who dissect and analyze the proposed project from various angles. The contributors are Ramaswamy Iyer, S G Vombatkere, Kalyan Rudra, Himanshu Thakkar, Sudhirendar Sharma, Biksham Gujja and Hajara Shaik, Gopal Siwakoti 'Chintan', Jamal Anwar and Medha Patkar.

The field report below, dated September 6th, by a team including Ms. Medha Patkar, finds that rescue operations are ongoing and thousands of people are still stranded:

UPDATE ON THE FLOOD SITUATION IN BIHAR