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December 2003

December 29, 2003	Increasing SSP Height to 110m: Narendra Modi for yet Another Genocide, Violation of Law and Human Rights: Why is SC Mute?
December 25, 2003	Earthquake of Intensity 4 rocks Narmada Valley A Warning again against increasing SSP height

September 2003

September 23, 2003	Jan Sangarsh Morcha Press Release: Digvijay Singh government violates PESA, puts 29 adivasis and social activist Madhuri in jail for last five days for asserting the rights of the Gram Sabha
September 16, 2003	SC/ST Commission Chairman visits Narmada Valley and Rehabilitation Site in Gujarat, Assures Justice for the Affected People

August 2003

August 28, 2003	Sardar Sarovar at What Cost? : BJP-Congress Together on Slaughtering People, if not Cows
August 22, 2003	Official Team of Ministers from the Government of Maharashtra Visits the Narmada Valley for the First Time on August 21.
August 10, 2003	Solidarity Team to Narmada Valley Harassed by Gujarat Police
August 08, 2003	Relay Fast Enters Fourth Day; Official Record Checking Begins; Shaheed Diwas (Martyr's Day) to be Observed on August 9.
August 05, 2003	Adivasis on Fast- First Phase of Satyagraha Begins; Police Brutality and Maharashtra Government's Injustice Exposed
August 03, 2003	Dam-affected Adivasis Storm Collector's office; Condemn Arrest, Demand Steps Before Next Flood; Fast by adivasis to Begin From August 5th
August 01, 2003	Adivasis get Jail Instead of Rehabilitation; NBA Condemns Police high handedness; Demands Unconditional And Immediate Release

July 2003

July 29, 2003	Adivasis Arrested Forcefully in Chimalkhedi; Waters Rise Submerging Houses And Standing Crops; Madhya Pradesh C.M. Agrees to Involve Gram Sabhas in Rehabilitation Process
July 27, 2003	Earthquake in Narmada Dam Region of 4.3 Richter Scale Intensity; Grim Warning for Gujarat and Narmada Valley
July 26, 2003	Increasing Narmada Waters Submerges Maharashtra Villages; Tribals Forcibly Displaced Without Resettlement
July 21, 2003	Visit by Eminent Persons Exposes Reality of Displacement and Rehabilitation; CM Singh Promises Larger Meeting on July 27

June 2003

June 30, 2003	NBA faces Betrayal : A distorted Official Resolution Rejected : 'Warn and Watch Centres' will lead to Satyagraha unless dispute is resolved.
June 06, 2003	Dharna and Fast Withdrawn as Maharashtra Government Accepts Demands
June 03, 2003	Fifth Day of Fast: Medha Patkar's Health Deteriorates; Struggle will Continue Despite Maharashtra Govt's Apathy.
June 02, 2003	Former CM of Maharashtra Opposed to Raise of Dam Height without Rehabilitation
June 01, 2003	Third Day of Medha Patkar's Indefinite Fast; Dam Oustees Organizations in Maharashtra to join Dharna for Jun 5; Police, Officials Start Threats and Extorts Adivasis.

May 2003

May 29, 2003	Dharna in Nashik on Fifth Day; Indefinite Fast by Medha Patkar from May 30
May 28, 2003	Treat All Declared, Undeclared Oustees as Affected Tribals Start Dharna in Nashik
May 22, 2003	A Note on Raising the Sardar Sarovar Dam to 100 Metres
May 22, 2003	Shobha Wagh, a woman with grit and silent determination
May 20, 2003	Madhya Pradesh Govt. Bent Upon Destroying Peasants and Tribals in Connivance with Modi. Battle for Life in Narmada Valley before the Electoral Battle�
May 18, 2003	Yet Another Gimmick By Modi With Tears Of Displaced Tribals
May 14, 2003	FORN/AID/IRN Press Release Indian Dam Decision Threatens Indigenous People; Supreme Court Orders Ignored
May 14, 2003	Increase in SSP Height - A Corrupt Politics : Digvijay, Shinde Submit to Modi�s Wiles

April 2003

April 28, 2003	Mumbai City Court dismisses S.Kumar's Notices of motion against NBA in Maheshwar Project case
April 25, 2003	Fifth And Final Day of Dharna: Strenghtened Resolve to Fight in The Coming Days
April 24, 2003	Government Starts Talks with People on dharna
April 21, 2003	Indefinite dharna in Mumbai by various people affected by Maharashtra development projects
April 04, 2003	Centre and Madhya Pradesh government unite to ignore public financing norms and serious financial irregularities to inject public money in favorite S.Kumar's Maheshwar Project; People of the Narmada valley determined to fight this unholy alliance -

March 2003

March 10, 2003	Asia Development Bank pushing Madhya Pradesh into slavery; Declaration of collective struggle in state level workshop
March 05, 2003	Alirajpur dharna enters 13th day
March 03, 2003	Anti-adivasi approach of the administration
March 02, 2003	Legal Notices Issued to Narmada Valley Development Authority

February 2003

February 27, 2003	Nimad Malwa Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan Press Release Fifteen Thousand Farmers Gather in Mandleshwar to Protest Against Electricity Tariff Hikes in Madhya Pradesh
February 26, 2003	Dharna of SSP Affected Adivasis in Alirajpur Enters Sixth Day
February 25, 2003	Serious Bungling in Rehabilitation of SSP Adivasi Oustees Brought to Light
February 24, 2003	Third Day of Alirajpur Dharna Continues
February 21, 2003	Dharna at Alirajpur of SSP Oustees Begins
February 17, 2003	Jan Sangharsh Morcha Press Release: Struggle begins against hike in electricity tariffs, farmers launch civil disobedience movement; We shall fill not bills but jails

January 2003

January 31, 2003	NAPM Press Release:Unorganized Workers, Students Groups Oppose Globalization: Assert Right to Livelihood, Secularism
January 30, 2003	NAPM Press Release:Thousands Demand to Stop Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project, Prawn Farming : Implement Coastal Regulation to Save Environment, People
January 29, 2003	NAPM Press Release:NAPM joins Protest Against Sea-sand Mining in Kerala Organizations Call For People's Right Over Resources
January 28, 2003	NAPM Press Release: Farmers, Workers and Students in North, Central Kerala Resolve to Resist Unsustainable Development, Privatization and Communalism
January 27, 2003	NAPM Press Release:National Campaign by Peoples Movements Against Globalization and Communalism Kicked off at Palakkad; Dhadda Returns Padma Bhushan
January 25, 2003	NAPM Press Release:Desh Bachao Desh Banao Abhiyan Save the Nation, Build the Nation Campaign (National tour programme)
January 22, 2003	Adivasi Village of Narmada Valley Achieves Energy Self-Sufficiency; Bilgaon Electrifies itself with 15 KW Micro-Hydel Project
January 22, 2003	Modi plans another genocide! All out to flood Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat adivasi and non-adivasi villages in the coming monsoon.