Join a one day Fast in support of Narmada Bachao Andolan

The Narmada Solidarity Forum in Bangalore invites you to join a symbolic one day fast to show our solidarity with the NBA, and to condemn the apathy of the government.

The fast will take place on Saturday, 8th April  at the Gandhi statute at MG Road, Bangalore from 7 AM to 7 PM

For more details contact

Benson    57636102
Jagadeesh 9448043941
Uvaraj   9448371389


You can also fax the following petition to the Prime Minister's Office   at 011
23019545/ 01123016857



Dear Sir,


Since the 17th of March, the adivasis, farmers, of the
Narmada Valley have been sitting on a peaceful dharna in Delhi. On
8th March, 06, the Narmada Control Authority gave clearance for the
height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam to be raised from 110.64m up to 121.92m. This clearance, given on the basis of untrue reports and false claims of the
government, will cause the destruction of the homes, fields and lives of
about 220 villages in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. This decision
is not just a blatant violation of the orders of the Supreme Court,
but most of all, it has made a mockery of the human rights of lakhs of
people still living in the submergence villages. As per the law,
the governments  were required to ensure that every single affected family
was resettled at least 6 months before submergence, offering cultivable
land for land  and resettling them in resettlement sites provided with
all civic  amenities.

However, in clear and inhuman violence of this it has not resettled
atleast 35,000 families. It is to challenge this injustice and
illegality that protestors have, for the last 12 days, been on this
dharna, speaking out against this continuing injustice and challenging
the Centre to use its powers and not to give in to the dirty politics and pressure of the Gujarat BJP government.

NBA supporters have met all concerned, from the President to your own
Honourable Self to the Union Minister of Water Resources and Union
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

In all these meetings NBA supporters have repeatedly exposed and proved
the illegalities in the processes and the falsity of resettlement  claims
of the governments and the authorities. We also have proven that the
authorities like the NCA and its sub ˆ groups are just not capable of
ensuring just resettlement and are mere pawns before the politics that
determine when the construction of the dam can progress. Rehabilitation
has been reduced to a paper exercise in the process.

This decision,  made possible by the political nexus between Gujarat and
Madhya Pradesh governments, will not only murder the lives and
futures of affected people but will also submerge a culture, a heritage, a
civilization  that is centuries old.

To protest this decision  three representatives from the Narmada
Valley, Jamsing Nargave from village Amlali in Badwani
district (Madhya Pradesh), Bhagwatibai Jatpuria from village Nissarpur
in Dhar district (Madhya Pradesh) and Medha Patkar begin an indefinite hunger
strike at Jantar Mantar.


We request you to take into serious consideration their just demands immediately, so that India keeps its Constitutional promise of being a government of the people, by the people and for the people.



Your faithfully ,