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>Please find the NGO open letter to President of India with 83
>signatures including Diet Members and Academics.
>
>Ms. MOTOYAMA Hisako from Friends of the Earth, NIIKURA Toshiko and Heather
>Souter from Rivers ! Japan went to SUMITOMO and Indian Embassy on 3rd August,
>the International Narmada Solidarity Day.
>
>SUMITOMO:
>NAKAMURA Takushi,
>
>Subject: NGO Open Letter for Narmada
>attendance:
>
>Indian Embassy:
>Arijit Ghosh,  Third Secretary, Embassy of India
>
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 17:31:49 -0800
From: Patrick McCully <patrick@irn.org>
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Deputy General Manager
>Corporate Communications Dept.
>
>NAMOTO Yoshinao,
>Senior Staff
>Corporate Communications Dept.
>
>NGO:
>NIIKURA Toshiko, Campaigner,   Rivers ! Japan
>
>Heather SOUTER, Campaigner,   Rivers ! Japan
>
>MOTOYAMA Hisako,
>Public Finance and Environment Programme,
>Friends of the Earth-Japan
>
>Kyodo press service picked up this action and made a small article.
>
>SAITOH Aya, Rivers ! Japan
>
>*******Here is the NGO Open Letter********
>
>
>August 3, 1999
>
>Dr. K. R. Narayanan,
>The Honorable President of India
>Rashtrapati Bhavan
>New Delhi
>India
>
>Dear Honorable President Narayanan,
>
>We, citizens, residents and non-governmental groups of Japan, are writing to
>express our shock and deep concern over the impending submergence of villages
>in the Narmada Valley this monsoon, due to further construction on the Sardar
>Sarovar Dam.
>
>Please understand that we are not opposed to India pursuing greater prosperity
>.
>  However, in attempting to do so, we do not want India to make the same
>mistakes Japan has.  In the past,  Japan built many large-scale dams but most
>of them became unfunctional after 50 years due to siltation.
>
>We have experienced first-hand the problems that these dams cause.  The
>displacement of residents, the disintigration of communities, and the
>environmental distruction that occurs is magnitudes greater than the benefits
>accrued from them.
>
>In the United States and Europe, the decommissioning of exsisting dams is
>proceeding. Moreover, the World Bank is moving forward with the World
>Commission on Dams (WCD) in cooperation with both the dam-building industry
>and international NGOs.  The era of large-scale dams has come to a close and
>the time for creating a new development paradigm is here.
>
>In light of this, we feel obliged to point out that the continued
>construction of a dam requiring such extensive relocation of the local people
>and so detrimental to the envronment, is diametrically opposed to the
>direction the world community is now heading.
>
>On February 18, 1999, the Indian supreme court lifted the four year old stay
>on the construction of the project and gave the state of Gujarat permission to
>
>increase the effective height of the dam to 88 meters.
>This monsoon the rising water due to the dam could affect 60 tribal villages
>in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.  More than 10,000 people are
>threatened with the loss of their lives, livilihoods, homes, and homelands.
>
>While thousands of people now stand be displaced--or drowned--due to the
>construction on the dam since February, people who were forced to move in the
>past are facing countless severe problems.
>
>Due the fragmented resettlement process, families, communities and culture
>have disintegrated.  The living conditions at rehabilitation sites are
>appalling.  There are many people do not have cultivatable land to work and
>many suffering from a lack of drinking water, fuelwood, fodder, health,
>education and sanitation.
>
>We must not permit such a violation of the fundamental and inalienable right
>to life, livelihood and dignity of the tribal people guaranteed to them by the
>
>Indian Constitution to happen.
>
>We implore you to look into the matter and exercise your powers to stop
>further work on the project immediately and initiate an inquiry into the
>project and the plight of those it is driving into destitution.
>
>We trust that you will move quickly and directly address the situation.  We
>will continue to monitor the situation.
>
>Respectfully yours,
>
>NIIKURA Toshiko, Campaigner,   Rivers ! Japan
>
>Heather Souter, Campaigner,   Rivers ! Japan
>
>SAITOH Aya, Campaigner,   Rivers ! Japan
>
>Hisako Motoyama,
>Public Finance and Environment Programme,  Friends of the Earth-Japan
>
>Ikuko Matsumoto,Programme Coordinator, Public Finance and Environment
>Programme,
>Friends of the Earth-Japan
>
>TAKEMURA Yasuko, Member of The House of Councilors
>
>HIRONAKA Wakako, Member of The House of Councilors
>
>Noriko Shimizu,  Japan Catholic Council for Justice and Peace
>
>Mizuhara Hiroko,  Secretary General, Consumers Union of Japan
>
>Okuno Kumiko,  JAPAN International Volunteer Center
>
>SHIMIZU Toshihiro, Japan International Volunteer Center(JVC), General Affairs
>
>Kanda Hiroshi,  Institute for Alternative Community Development
>
>FUJIBAYASHI Yasushi,  Institute for Alternative Community
>Development
>
>Doi Toshiyuki,  The Fukuoka NGO Forum on the ADB
>
>Mika Ohbayashi,Energy and Asian nuclear issues, Citizens' Nuclear Information
>Center
>
>Iwata Yuichiro,  ASIAN FORUM
>
>Yoko Kitazawa, Co-Chair, Jubilee 2000 Japan
>
>Eiji Ishinaka, APEC Monitor NGO Network
>
>Sakuma Shinichi,General Secretary,People's Action Network To Monitor Japanese
>TMCs
>
>Tomoyo Saito,  Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society
>
>Satoru Matsumoto,  Secretary General,  Mekong Watch Japan
>
>KOBATASHI Ichiro, Secretary, A SEED JAPAN
>
>Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, A SEED JAPAN
>
>TSUJI Atsuo, Representative,  Save Fujimae Association
>
>KASHIWAGI Minoru, Steering Committee Member, Japan Wetlands Action Network
>
>WATANABE Makoto,  Citizens for Saving the Kawabe Tokyo
>
>Yoko Nishida, Citizens for Saving the Kawabe
>
>Masatake Mishima, Nakaikemi Shichi Trust
>
>Hiroyuki Kitayama, Isehara no shizen to kankyo wo mamoru Kai　
>Aoki Shigeru, Ainu to sisamu no ukocharanke wo jitsugen saseru Kai
>
>Toshikatsu Keishu,  Representative, Tsuruga Chikyu mura
>
>Daigo Fukunaga,  Manager,  The Kagoshima duck-rice group
>
>Masatoshi Okuno,Representative , Japan Rural Community and Inspect
>Protectionist's Group
>
>Waki yoshishige,  Secretary General to Hakata Bay coaltion
>Secretary General to Kyushu/Ryukyu Wetlands Action Network in Japan
>Steering Committee person to Japan Wetlands Action Network ,Kyushu Bureau
>
>Kaori Ooka, Save the Fujimae Association, Tokyo no mizu wo kangaeru Kai
>
>Eiji Yamazaki, Secretary-General of Fukui Worker's Alpine Federation
>
>HirokoMinami, Manager, Makio-Gawa dam no minaoshi wo motomeru Renkaku-Kai
>
>ENDOH Yasuo, Suigen kaihatu Mondai Zenkoku Renraku-Kai
>
>Shinsui  Nose,  Secretary-General, Love The Asuwa River Association
>
>YAMAMOTO Tetsue,  Representative, Save Sone Wetland　
>
>HARATO Masami, Save Sone Wetland
>
>NIIMURA Yasuo, Nagara Salmon Research Group
>
>Hiroyuki  Kubota,  J-Forest
>
>KUSANO Masaaki,  Representative, Oze no shizen wo mamoru Yamayuri no Kai
>
>YANAGAWA Hideo, Representative, Experimental Village Forum on Global Issues
>
>OHNO, Secretary General, Asian Farmers Exchange Center
>
>Hayashi Satoru,  Sabae chikyumura
>
>ONO Yukio, Secretary General, People to People Aid
>
>YOSHIZAKI Satoshi, Deputy Manager, Nippon Engineering Consultants CO.,LTD.
>Overseas Projects Section
>
>SHIGEMATSU Tomohiro, Member of the municipal assembly of Kunitachi City,Japan
>
>HUNANAMI Keiko, Member of Local Assembly of Shinagawa ward in Tokyo
>
>Murai Yoshinori, Professor of Sophia University
>
>Dr Komei HOSOKAWA, Dept of Resource Management and Society, Faculty of
>Agriculture, The University of Saga, Japan.
>
>NOMURA; Osami,　Senior Resercher, National Laboratory
>
>Kenichiro Yanagi, Prof. of Environmental Law, Meikai University
>
>Kumamoto Kazuki,　Professor,　MeijiGakuin
>University,　the Faculty of
>International Studies
>
>Iwakuma Yukio, Fukui Prefectural University
>
>Dr.Kenji Ago, Professor, Seinan Gakuin University, Dept. of Economics
>
>Dr.Shintaro Goto, Associate　Professor,Dept. of Environmental
>Systems Faculty
>of GEO-Environmental Science
>
>Tetsuya Akazawa,Graduate School of Economics Kanazawa University Japan
>Research Institute
>
>TODA Kiyosi,  Nagasaki University
>
>Mizuta Tetsuo, Ritsumeikan University
>
>YOKOYAMA Tetsuo,   University of Kobe
>
>Arai Yasuko, Student,  University of Tsukuba
>
>Masahiro Sugiyama, Student at the department of the earth-planetary physics,
>Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
>
>Yukawa Reiko
>
>Tsutomu Takano
>
>Yokoyama  Naomi
>
>Yokoyama  Ryuko
>
>Yumi Tanaka
>
>Hideki Morikawa
>
>HISAMATSU Tatsuo
>
>Okikawa Jyoji
>
>Kataoka Natsumi
>
>Machiko Nishimura
>
>Fumie Katayama
>
>TODA Yoichiro
>
>Satoshi Komizo
>
>FUJIMORI, Mariko
>
>Kiyoe Takase
>
>Kameoka,Kazutaka
>
>Shibayama,Yasuko
>
>Sayaka  Iwata
>
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