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Subject: LS: NCA Officials Admit failure in Rehabilitation
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NARMADA BACHAO ANDOLAN
B-13, Shivam Flats, Ellora Park, Baroda Telefax: 0265-282232
Press Note - 8.8.2001
NCA Officials Admit failure in Rehabilitation:
Agreed to Hold Public Hearing in the Valley
Senior officials of Narmada Control Authority (NCA) have admitted that the
rehabilitation of the people who are falling under the already constructed
dam (90 m + 3 m humps = 93 m) is not yet over. They also agreed to hold
public hearings in the tribal villages on the status of rehabilitation,
issue of land rights and the inadequacies of the rehabilitation policy, in
the coming days.
This was revealed at the office of NCA (Indore), when over 600 men and
women from the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and the
farmers of Nimad (Madhya Pradesh) confronted them on the 6th of August with
questions pertaining to the rehabilitation and other issues.
When the people asked officials including Shri.N.D.Tiwari [Member
(Environment and Rehabilitation) - NCA] and Shri.Afroz Ahmed (Director,
Rehabilitation NCA) whether land is available for the ones who are getting
affected at 93 mts, and whether their rehabilitation is over, the answer
was a big NO. They also admitted that in original village as well as in
rehabilitation sites, like in Maharashtra, there are many without
agricultural land, even after their shifting many years back. Some got half
of the promised land, while some got bad, and in many cases major sons are
left out. While the officials of Maharashtra claimed that they will buy 200
ha. land for rehabilitation, the Madhya Pradesh, (with maximum
displacement 35716 families) has identified only 177 ha (that too in
pieces), which they set aside from the sericulture farms of the Government.
The officials made it clear once again, that NCA has never given any
permission to construct the dam above 88 mts something which the Supreme
Court has claimed to have done by NCA, when they allowed the dam to go till
90 mts, in October 2000.
People also demanded that there should be a truthful survey of the people
getting affected, in the context of failure of Government to give land
rights to the tribals. They made it clear that the assumption that over
14,000 families from Madhya Pradesh will opt for rehabilitation in Gujarat
is not based on any survey and that has to be done properly.
The people reiterated that when there is not even a correct estimate of
people who will get affected at 93 mts, when the availability of
agricultural land is a distant possibility, they will not move out of their
houses when the flood comes.
People returned to the Satyagraha centres, after the 7 hour long
confrontation, declaring that when the fact is crystal clear that the
rehabilitation of the already affected is far from over and when there is
hardly any preparation to take care of the ones affected at higher levels
of the dam, any more construction will be in total violation of the Award,
state policies and stipulations of the Court. It will also amount to
Contempt of Court, they added.
Medha Patkar
Clifton D'Rozario
Jitendra Patidar
Kesav Vasave
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