Sunday, September 5, 2010

Save Narmada save people.

As we all know, the Supreme Court of India has passed an adverse acting order regarding the Sardar Sarovar Project allowing for the Narmada dam to be raised. By claiming to curb itself to the issue of resettlement, the court is being obfuscator with regard to the rights of individuals in our society.
The interim order was passed, based partly on the basis of sworn affidavits from the government of Maharashtra which have recently been canceled by the officials who filed the affidavits. The unlucky follower under this official accompanied the people to the ostensible resettlement site & finally agreed that really there were no land available.
Article 21 is one of the most important articles of Indian constitution. It’s a “Right to life”, the right against arbiter arrest. It also gives Right to livelihood- It includes right to clean living conditions. The universal declaration of 3rd generation right was passed in 1986 that are the right to development & right to self-determination. It gives right to the state or the people to say in the discussion of developments on which they are affected.
In India during 1950 to 1988 more than 55milion people have been displaced by the development project & less than 25% had been rehabilitated.
Such details aside, the provisional order, is a significant challenge to what is possibly the most significant social movement in independent India.
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) plans a massive mobilization of people. While political parties do this on a routine basis to establish sham popularity, eternally broke movements like the NBA. The recent Supreme Court order in the matter of Narmada, has stirred up a discussion among the concerned on the judiciary role in protecting the interests of the deprived & the marginalized in probing the ‘ Public Purpose’ of large projects, & in paving the way for sustainable equitable alternatives. The temporary order, confined the states to rise the height of the dam from 32 meters in 1991 to 61 meters in 1993 monsoon, will result in irreparable damages. A large part of the tribal villages in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat & Rajasthan will be affected in the coming monsoon. This is not a time when state have not done enough to rehabilitate those affected at present nor have any readiness for it in the coming months & years.
In the present time, one can say that this fire is bowed in smoke. Nowadays if you talk about this issue you will hardly find people even interested to know about their today’s conditions. Whereas, if you actually look in to this issue it was another bit of successful movement by the people. They have secured their land but have not yet been rehabilitated by the government.

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