Year 2002 Press Releases from Narmada Bachao Andolan
December 2002
November 2002
| November 26, 2002 |
Jan Sangharsh Morcha Press Release:
Jan Sangharsh Morcha rally against electricity tariffs reaches Bhopal
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| November 26, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release:
Power Policy of Digvijay Singh Government Responsible for the Suicide of
Farmer Okte Government Should Stop Destitution of the Farmers At the Behest of ADB
and Take Back Proposed Tariff Hike
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| November 23, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release:
Thousands of Tribals-Farmers Protest
Against Proposed Electricity Tariff Hike as Rally Reaches Burhanpur
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| November 20, 2002 |
Government Misleads Parliament Again On Narmada Issue and
Suppresses
Information; Oustees Below 90 m. Not Yet Resettled
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| November 20, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release: Grand Welcome for
Bijli Bachao- Azadi Bachao Yatra in Kasrawad Over 5000
Farmers-Labourers Protest Against Proposed Tariff Hike in Electricity
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| November 19, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release: Thousands converge in Manawar
to protest hike in electricity prices as
Bijli Bachao-Azadi Bachao Yatra enters fourth day
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| November 15, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release: "Bijli Bachao - Azadi Bachao yatra" organized by Jan Sangarsh Morcha begins in Indore today; MPSEB must withdraw petition: People will struggle until government concedes
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| November 08, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release: Invitation to "Bijli-Bachao Azadi-Bachao Yatra", 15-30 Nov 2002 in MP
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| November 06, 2002 |
Jan Sangharsh Morcha Press Release: JSM to organize Bijli Bachao - Azadi Bachao Yatras
through the state in protest against the proposed electricity tariff hike;
CAG finds that MPSEB has wantonly wasted Rs. 70 crores
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October 2002
| October 21, 2002 |
Madhya Pradesh Government must withdraw the anti-people second tariff petition
and cancel agreement with Asia Development Bank; Huge protest rally in
Mandleshwar on the 26th of October marks beginning of state wide struggle
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| October 09, 2002 |
CM agrees to demands on Narmada and other project affected, slum dwellers and
adivasis. No Dam without rehabilitation, No Eviction of footpath dwellers
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| October 07, 2002 |
No Project and Displacement without Rehabilitation: A Pledge by Oustees of
Sardar Sarovar, Tapi, Krishna and Jaikwadi
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| October 05, 2002 |
Sardar Sarovar Task Force Report Exposes Serious Flaws in Rehabilitation;
Narmada Oustees Determined to Get Rehabilitation Issues Resloved:
Dharna by 800 Adivasis Continues
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| October 04, 2002 |
Thousands on Indefinite Dharana for Right to Livelihood in Maharashtra.
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| October 03, 2002 |
Thousands Take Part In Rally Along Roads of Bhopal After Jan Panchayat;
Demand
Right to Life and Livelihood
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| October 02, 2002 |
15,000 tribals and peasants participate in Jan Panchayat in Bhopal; oppose Asia
Development Bank and World bank; Call for intensifying struggle for rights over
lands, waters and forests
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September 2002
| September 24, 2002 |
Thousands Of Tribals in Narmada Valley and Satpura Ranges Asser Right Over Land:
Impressive March for Right to Life
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| September 15, 2002 |
Dubious Order Again In Narmada Matter: SC Avoids Responsibility To Protect
people's rights
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| September 10, 2002 |
Massive Devastation By Submergence; Narmada People Demand Compensation,
No Increase In Dam Height
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| September 08, 2002 |
RBI must direct CBI to investigate grave financial irregularities in
S.Kumars
promoted Maheshwar Project; Stop corporate loot of public money
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| September 06, 2002 |
More Than 800 People Affected by Sardar Sarovar Project Block Highway 26
(Khandwa-Baroda) to Protest Unjust Submergence
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| September 05, 2002 |
State Government Belittles Submergence; Devastation in Narmada
Valley: Medha, Kamla Yadav Face Neck-deep Water
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| September 03, 2002 |
SSP Dam waters Rise Alarmingly;Tribals Face Untold
Submergence;Satyagrahis Standing In Neck Deep Narmada Waters
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| September 01, 2002 |
Waters rising dangerously with Satyagrahis facing submergence in Sardar Sarovar
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August 2002
July 2002
| July 31, 2002 |
Maan dam oustees reach Bhopal after being brutal eviction by local administration
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| July 29, 2002 |
Satyagraha Samachar
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| July 28, 2002 |
Medical Examination of Injured Women Carried Out on Complaint by State Women's Commission
Relay Fast Begins
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| July 26, 2002 |
Outpouring of Support for Dharna of Maan Oustees : FIR Registered Against Police Loot
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| July 25, 2002 |
Maan Dam Affected People Start Dharna in Indore : Against State Repression
and Demanding Full Resettlement
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| July 23, 2002 |
Government creates artificial submergence by closing sluice gates;
Ousts village with police repression, attempts to derail GRA process
Adivasis escape camp, demand opening of sluice gates, restoration of families
and village, agricultural land
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| July 21, 2002 |
Villages Evicted with Police Terror Tactics
Preparations on for Demolishing : Women, Children Also Beaten Up:
NBA Demands that Submergence Should be Stopped Till Resettlement is Over
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| July 20, 2002 |
Madhya Pradesh government prepares to submerge Man affected villages in cold
blood; Closes sluice gates, Adivasi women arrested, taken from Dhar to unknown
place.
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| July 17, 2002 |
Eminent Panel Continues Public Hearings in Tribal Areas Affected by Sardar Sarovar Project
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| July 13, 2002 |
Eminent Panel Held Public Hearing in Sardar Sarovar Dam Affected Area
False Claims of Government Exposed Once Again
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| July 11, 2002 |
Left to Support Narmada Struggle: Outcome of Narmada March In North
Maharashtra; Joint campaign by Left-Progressive Political Parties and
NBA-NAPM
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| July 10, 2002 |
Narmada March Draws Fervent Support in North Maharashtra; Tribals expose
Reality of Displacement to Outside World
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| July 07, 2002 |
Activist Arrested, Beaten in Ambabari by Maharashtra Police
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| July 06, 2002 |
Resolve of Narmada Satyagraha: Struggle against the Unjust Submergence will continue
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| July 01, 2002 |
NBA activist still in jail on flimsy charges;
Dhar administration deliberately obstructs bail;
Rains in full spate, Impending submergence
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| July 01, 2002 |
Satyagraha Begins Amidst Heavy Rains;
More Severe Rains to Come: 8000 Families to be Affected This Year
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June 2002
| June 26, 2002 |
Dhar Police abducts NBA activist, whereabouts unknown,
NBA to file Habeus Corpus
State continues repression against Maan dam oustees
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| June 25, 2002 |
More than 1000 NBA representatives in peaceful protest in
front of Grievance Redressal Authority (GRA);
23 people sit on a symbolic one-day fast
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| June 24, 2002 |
Inability to Rehabilitate the People Exposed Again:
Oustees of SSP in the Streets of Indore for Justice
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| June 18, 2002 |
Indefinite Fast and Dharna Withdrawn
Expert Advisors Appointed in GRA to
Ensure Rehabilitation of Maan Dam Oustees
To Guarantee Complete Rehabilitation by July 31st
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| June 17, 2002 |
Fasting Activists Continue to be Critical
Continue the Fast Inspite the Police Intensify Search
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| June 16, 2002 |
Further Decline in Health of Fasting Activists;
Government Tries to Wash-Off Responsibility: Uninterested in Resolving
Crisis
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| June 15, 2002 |
Ramkuvar Sinking: Health of Others Critically Deteriorating;
Government Backed Off From its Own Proposal for Independent Committee;
Police Encircles Submergence Villages
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| June 15, 2002 |
Narmada Satyagraha 2002:
A Call to the Conscience of the Nation.
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| June 14, 2002 |
Submergence started in Maan Affected Khedi village;
Indefinite fast of the four activists enters 25th day;
Activists in Jail Observe One Day Fast: Chain Fast Begun in USA
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| June 12, 2002 |
Government Resorting to Cheap Tactics by Manipulating Medical Reports;
Indefinite Fast Enters 23rd day
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| June 11, 2002 |
Indefinite Fast Enters 22nd Day; Green Party Leader Appeals to Mr.Digvijay
Singh; NBA Condemns the Attack on 'Water Man' Rajendra Singh
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| June 11, 2002 |
Hundreds Protest in Badwani Against Repressive Tactics of Madhya
Pradesh Government; People Vow to Resist Unjust Displacement and Face the
Submergence
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| June 10, 2002 |
Indefinite Fast Enters 21st Day; Solidarity Programs in Support of Maan
Struggle Held in Several Places
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| June 10, 2002 |
Baba Amte's House in Chhoti Kasarvad Forcibly Taken Over With Connivance of MP Government: Nimad
People Protest in Face of Police
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| June 09, 2002 |
"Rehabilitate Maan affected persons immediately": Arundhati Roy;
Number of Trade Unions join Dharna to express solidarity
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| June 08, 2002 |
SC/ST Commission asks Chief Secretary to submit a report within a week over
the rehabilitation of Man affected persons. Writers from around the country express solidarity
with struggle, ask Chief Minister to initiate dialogue immediately
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| June 05, 2002 |
Narmada Case in Supreme Court
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| June 04, 2002 |
Indefinite Fast Enters 15th Day: Government Resorts to Hollow Claims
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| June 04, 2002 |
Socialist Organizations Condemn Atrocities in Sardar Sarovar, Maan Dam Areas in
Narmada Valley
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| June 03, 2002 |
14th Day of Indefinite Fast; Consulting the Adivasis is a must: Dr B.D. Sharma.
Rehabilitation Policy in the Presence of the Governor.
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| June 02, 2002 |
Six Thousand Families in 38 Villages in MP in SSP Issued Notices for Eviction:
People Dare Govt. to Evict Thousands by June 5
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May 2002
| May 30, 2002 |
Jan Sangarsh Morcha press release Inhuman Treatment of Tribals Displaced by the Maan Project;
The True Face of the Madhya
Pradesh Government's Dalit Agenda is Revealed
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| May 29, 2002 |
Ninth Day of Indefinite Hunger Strike; Activists meet with Deputy Chief Minister and Chief
Secretary of Madhya Pradesh
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| May 29, 2002 |
Supreme Court to hear Narmada matter on May 30, amidst state terror,
illegalities and people's resistance
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| May 29, 2002 |
Madhya Pradesh government ready to trample Sardar Sarovar affected people
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| May 27, 2002 |
Indefinite Fast Enters Seventh Day
Cruelty of State Government is Uncivilized - Rajendra Singh
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| May 25, 2002 |
Indefinite hunger strike enters its fifth day
Madhya Pradesh state government resorts to lies, flouts its own resettlement norms
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| May 22, 2002 |
Supreme Court issues notices to Union and State Governments and
Narmada Control Authority to file replies by 30th May in the writ petition
filed by Narmada Bachao Andolan
Raising Sardar Sarovar height to 95 (+3 mts. humps) challenged!
Illegal scandalous State violence against 10,000 families of adivasis
and farmers!
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| May 21, 2002 |
Indefinite fast for the rehabilitation of the Man dam affected people
and against state terror begins at Bhopal
Adivasis face the prospect of death through thirst as State government
destroys all water sources
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| May 17, 2002 |
Police reign of terror in Man dam affected villages in Dhar
Electricity cut off, hand pumps extracted, Five schools bulldozed
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| May 16, 2002 |
Dharna of the Man dam oustees continues for second day in Bhopal
Delegation meets Narmada Valley Development Officials
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| May 15, 2002 |
Dharna of Maan dam affected people for their rights begins;
Special rehabilitation package inadequate; Submergence of 17 villages imminent
People raise their voice against police repression
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| May 14, 2002 |
Maan Dam Oustees on dharna in Bhopal from 15th May, 2002;
Villages to be flooded within a month; People demand better financial
package to ensure land based rehabilitation, stop felling of trees, state repression.
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| May 10, 2002 |
State government misleading public on Maheshwar Project to cover its
financial irregularities
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| May 3, 2002 |
MP Govt. assures to hold discussions before May 10: Villagers end
Bhopal dharna. Will MP help Gujarat design by violating law, human rights?
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April 2002
| April 28, 2002 |
Narendra modi finds a friend in Digvijay Singh
for illegal increase in Sardar Sarovar height
and for displacing Madhya Pradesh villagers with cash
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| April 27, 2002 |
Dharna Continues into the Sixth Day
17 Women begin Indefinite fast
CM Digvijay Singh to meet Representatives tomorrow
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| April 25, 2002 |
People Continue Dharna in Bhopal on 25th and ask:
What will Madhya Pradesh Gain and Lose from Sardar Sarovar?
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| April 24, 2002 |
Dharna Continues: Talks with NVDA unsatisfactory
People pledge to step up stir if government remains passive
Trade Unions Pledge Support to NBA
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| April 22, 2002 |
Representatives from Narmada Valley sit-in at NVDA office in Bhopal
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| April 16, 2002 |
Madhya Pradesh Government announces new financial package for Maan dam
affected adivasis
Oustees acknowledge that this is a first step but insufficient, insist on
land, prepare for satyagraha
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| April 14, 2002 |
Day long dharna and fast at Mandleshwar on Ambedkar Jayanthi
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| April 9, 2002 |
Attack at Sabarmati Ashram: Result of a Nexus of Communal-Capitalist forces
VAJPAYEE AND BJP MUST INSTANTLY REMOVE NARENDRA MODI
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| April 5, 2002 |
Madhya Pradesh government jeopardizes public interest in granting in-principle
guarantee to Maheshwar project
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