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From: Madhuresh Kumar <madhuresh@napm-india.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Subject: [initiative-india] JAN ADHIKAR RALLY : Mandleshwar : 23rd November, 2010 DO Join !
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From: NBA KHANDWA <nbakhandwa@gmail.com>
Narmada Bachao Andolan
2, Sai Nagar, Mata Chowk, Khandwa
Phone: 094259-28007, 094253-94606
Invitation
JAN ADHIKAR RALLY
Mandleshwar : 23rd November, 2010
Dear Friends,
The Maheshwar dam is one of the largest dams being built on the river Narmada affecting around 50,000 to 70,000 peasants, fisher folk, boatmen and landless workers. This hydel power project was privatised and handed over to the S.Kumar's group of companies in 1992. The oustees of this dam have been relentlessly fighting against this destructive dam for the last 14 years under the aegis of Narmada Bachao Andolan. As a consequence, many international companies and banks such as Siemens, Bayernwerk, VEW Energie from Germany, the German bank Hypovereinsbank and a US company, Ogden, departed from the project, and the German and Portugese governments also refused to provide guarantees to the Maheshwar Project.
From the year 2001 to 2005, taking cognizance of the diversion of 106.4 crores of project funds by the S.Kumars group, the Indian financial institutions and banks such as Indian Financial Corporation of India, Industrial Development Bank of India, Power Finance Corporation, Bank of India, Dena Bank, Central Bank also stopped funding the project. From 2001 to 2005, also, the properties of Maheshwar dam was attached by the Madhya Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation because of wilful default on loans. Work on the dam site remained stalled for 5 years. However from the year 2006, work on the dam resumed, and construction was carried on rapidly, without providing any rehabilitation and resettlement measures to the affected families. In violation of the conditions of the environmental clearance, 80-90% of the construction work on the dam was achieved as opposed to a meagre 10% in the case of rehabilitation. In this grave situation, the oustees demonstrated in Delhi in February and then in April 2010, urging the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to stop construction on the dam. On 23.04.2010, construction of the dam was stopped on orders from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, for being in violation of conditions of the statutory environmental clearances under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act.
During the last fortnight, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests wrote once again to the State government pointing out that even in the six months when the dam construction has remained stalled, no progress was made in the implementation of rehabilitation and resettlement measures. No R&R Plan detailing the full extent of submergence and details of agricultural land to be allotted to the oustees was submitted either.
The State government has failed to establish the public purpose of the Maheshwar Project. It may be noted that 6500 families have filed individual objections to the acquisition of their lands and the public purpose of the project under S.5 A of the Land Acquisition Act in the last few months. Although these 6500 families have been individually heard, the Land Acquisition Officer has not yet been able to give any report deciding the public purpose of the project.
Under these circumstances, when it is clear that rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees can and will never be done and where it is also clear that the Maheshwar project is not in public purpose, the Narmada Bachao Andolan and the oustees call on the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Central Government to revoke the environmental clearance on the project. For this purpose, the oustees of the Maheshwar dam are holding a large JAN ADHIKAR RALLY on the 23rd November, 2010 at Mandleshwar to voice this resolution. The struggling oustees of the Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar, Man and Upper Beda dams will also join in an attempt to stop destruction of the Narmada valley.
People of the Narmada Valley invite you to be with them at Mandleshwar on the 23rd of November 2010, to stand united with the oustees in their struggle for their rights.
In solidarity,
Chittaroopa Palit, Alok Agarwal, Bhagwan Mukati, Radheshyam Patidar, Kadvibai
Note : Mandleshwar is 2:30 hrs by road from Indore and Khandwa.
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