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Do or die:
The people versus development in the Narmada Valley
Just out: New Internationalist magazine special issue, July 2001
A special issue of New Internationalist on the ongoing crisis in the Narmada
Valley is being published to coincide with the start of the 2001 satyagraha
by villagers and activists confronting the waters rising behind the Sardar
Sarovar and Maan dams during the coming monsoon.
This New Internationalist account of the Narmada story is a journey.
Inspired by meeting NBA leader Medha Patkar at an international meeting,
British writer Maggie Black and artist Lucy Willis went to Narmada to find
out why the Sardar Sarovar and other large dams in the Valley have provoked
such extraordinary opposition. In people's homes, at village meetings, on
boats, trains, verandas and temple steps, they found out why people would
rather drown than let these dams be built. They learnt about a kind of
destructive injustice and a popular resistance unknown in their own society,
and they were amazed, appalled and inspired.
This account of the Narmada struggle begins at Bargi dam, whose oustees have
been treated with extraordinary official indifference since 1990. It
continues downstream to Maheshwar, where S Kumars' attempt to build the
first private hydro-electric dam in India is in trouble. Then they go to the
dam-site on the Maan tributary, where the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
has ordered the violation of his own state policies and 17 tribal villages
face submergence without any re-settlement. On to the Sardar Sarovar
reservoir and more tribal villages faced with submergence, where people are
still being made offers of useless or already occupied land 12 years after
re-settlement should have been completed. Finally they visit other
communities affected by the SSP - the canal-affected, and those who have
been re-settled in Gujarat - and find out what is happening 'at the end of
the line'.
The Supreme Court judgement in the Narmada case, NBA's international
support, alternative water harvesting approaches, and facts about India's
love affair with large dams are all covered in the magazine. But Narmada's
people, interviewed by Maggie Black with the help of translators, and
painted and drawn by Lucy Willis, are the main focus. This issue of New
Internationalist provides a platform for some of those ruined in the name of
development by destructive grand-slam projects, illustrating what
globalisation in the form of an alliance between politicians, contractors,
bureaucrats and foreign capital does to people at the margins of society.
A limited number of copies of the Narmada issue of NI should be available
shortly from NBA office in Baroda.
Further information on this issue: maggie@black.win-uk.net
New Internationalist website: www.newint.org
Lucy Willis website: www.lucywillis.f9.co.uk
Enquiries about subscriptions: newint@subscription.co.uk
Enquiries about subscriptions in N. America: magazines@indas.on.ca
Enquiries about subscriptions in Australia: helenp@newint.com.au
Enquiries about subscriptions in New Zealand: newint@chch.planet.org.nz
General enquiries to NI: ni@newint.org
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