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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Madhya Pradesh to hear out Omkareshwar dam oustees -Mahim Pratap Singh

Madhya Pradesh to hear out Omkareshwar dam oustees -Mahim Pratap Singh

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published Published on Sep 8, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 8, 2012
-The Hindu

After standing in waist to neck-deep water for the past two weeks as part of their jal satyagraha , oustees of the Omkareshwar dam project have successfully managed to make the Madhya Pradesh Government sit up and take notice.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has deputed Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and Tribal Affairs Minister Vijay Shah to tour the site of the jal satyagraha and work out a solution. The protest, however, has not been called off just yet and the oustees continued to stand in neck-deep water on Friday, Day 14.

“The safety and security of the submergence-affected families is the priority of the Government. Rehabilitation of all oustees will be ensured and no one will be left out,” said Mr. Chauhan on Friday.

Mr. Vijayvargiya will also meet a delegation of the oustees led by Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in Bhopal on Saturday. Simultaneously, Union Power Minister M. Veerappa Moily has reportedly decided to send a Power Ministry fact-finding team to Omkareshwar. Mr. Moily had convened a special meeting with NHPC officials to review the situation.

Also, the NBA will be leading oustees of the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar projects in a “huge rally” on Saturday from the city’s famous Yaadgaar-e-Shahjahani Park to Neelam Park to “symbolically protest” against the State Government’s decision to raise the water level in the dam without ensuring prior relief and rehabilitation, including land for land, to the oustees.

However, the Government did not appear to be in agreement with the demands of the oustees. “Some affected families, having already received monetary compensation in lieu of land, have been misled into demanding land for land and have not moved from the dam site,” said an official release from Mr. Chauhan’s office. “But as per court orders, only those displaced families who have not received any compensation money from the banks are eligible for land in lieu of land and those protesting should keep that in mind before assessing the validity of their movement.”

The 520 MW project is one of several big dams on the Narmada, built by Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation, a joint venture of NHPC and Madhya Pradesh.

The Hindu, 8 September, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3872675.ece


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