Mass evictions anounced in the Narmada Valley

friend of the NBA 02.06.2002 18:30
SIX THOUSAND FAMILIES IN 38 VILLAGES IN M.P. IN SSP (Sadar Sarovar Dam) ISSUED NOTICES FOR
EVICTION :PEOPLE CHALLENGE GOVT TO EVICT THOUSANDS TILL JUNE 5
The Madhya Pradesh government is preparing to evict thousands of people in the
fertile plains of Nimad, in the Narmada valley affected by in the
controversial Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), within next five says, till June
5, even as the state government failed to resettle them according to the law
and with the land. The government has put ready hundreds of police and will be
utilizing to intimidate the people and suppress any resistance.

The District Collector and Resettlement Officer of Dhar has issues a notice
asking the people in 38 villages, including those of Nisarpur (2000families),
Bhavariya (460 families), Kadmal, Bajrikheda and Khaparkheda (760 families in
all), Chikhalda (760 families), Ekkalbara (400 families), Kavathi (150) and
Kothada (210 families) to leave their permanent or temporary houses,
professions, bazaars till June 5.These 38 villages comprise of over 6,000
families. The area is one of the most fertile tracts in the state.

These villages will be followed by the tribal villages from Kharia Bhadal,
Kotbandhani, to Bijasen, Pichhodi, Chhoti Kasaravad, Bagud, Piplud etc. in the
100 meters submergence this year only, which will follow the 95 meters
submergence now. Some villages affected by the Man dam in the Narmada valley,
are also slated to be evicted by June 5 without any resettlement.

All that M.P. government is doing, is patently illegal and without any
resettlement. The government failed in land-based resettlement; even the
resettlement sites are not ready for many villages which will be affected. The
government has absolutely no agriculture land to be given in lieu of the rich
and prosperous agriculture-horticulture of wheat, pulses, cotton, bananas,
papita and other crops ^ all of which will be affected by 95 and 100 met s
fact was time and again conceded by the Chief Minister himself, Neither the
government can provide any credible livelihood for the labourers and other
oustees. The Madhya Pradesh government has become violent and has trampled all
decent norms of civilized governance, rule of law and Constitutional values.
It has gone lunatic with the fetish to evict the people by any means.

The government has indulged in outright false propaganda that it had informed
the villagers or it has made preparation for the transportation of the people.
Neither the people were informed nor they were their any arrangements to take
them away. In fact , when they are not resettled at all, where, pray can they
be taken? The government has no definite number of oustees affected either by
100 meters or by the full height of the dam.

This outageous act has once again exposed Digvijay Singh (prime misister of M.Pr.) and his misdeeds of
corruption and tyranny. This betrayal will boomerang on him and the wrath of
people will scorch his regime. The people in Nimad will be resisting this
outrage firmly. They will confront the unjust displacement and submergence
waters Narmada Bachao Andolan challenges the Madhya Pradesh government to
proceed with its evil designs and see whether it can subdue the non-violent
resistance of the people.


Devram Kanera
Geetanjali Chavan
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