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Medha Patkar, a founding member and mentor
of the NBA, speaking at a rally outside the Collectors Office at
Nandurbar, Maharashtra. |
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Medha Patkar, a founding member and mentor
of the NBA, speaking at a rally outside the Collectors Office at
Nandurbar, Maharashtra. |
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Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize winning author
and NBA activist. Waiting to do a reading from her book on the Narmada
- "The Greater Common Good" - at Sulgaon, Madhya Pradesh. |
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The make shift NBA headquarters in Sulgaon before
the Maheshwar dam site protest. |
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Adivasi NBA activist Gulab Sighn and his wife in
one of the NBA boats. The boats run by NBA are the only way to travel
between Tribal villages in the region of the Narmada effected by
the Sadar Sarovar Project dam. Since the dam as swollen the
river paths between the villages have disappeared and the traditional
log canoes have become unstable. |
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One of the NBA boats. The boats run by NBA are the only way to travel
between Tribal villages in the region of the Narmada effected by
the Sadar Sarovar Project dam. Since the dam as swollen the
river paths between the villages have disappeared and the traditional
log canoes have become unstable. |
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One of the NBA boats. The boats run by NBA are the only way to travel
between Tribal villages in the region of the Narmada effected by
the Sadar Sarovar Project dam. Since the dam as swollen the
river paths between the villages have disappeared and the traditional
log canoes have become unstable. |
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Kamla Yadab was one of a number of people who went
on hunger strike for 26 days in 1994. The protest ended when building
on the Sadar Sadovar dam. Chhota Barda, Madhya Pradesh. |
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The school for tribal children run by the NBA at
Nimgavan, Maharashtra. The government had set up schools but the
teachers failed to attend on a regular basis. At the NBA schools
the children are taught in their own language by local tribal teachers. |
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Tribal children playing at the NBA school in Nimgavan,
Maharashtra. The SSP dam will submerge this village. |
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The Bargi dam (Madhya Pradesh) was finished in 1990
and displaced 114,000 people. Official estimates were that it would
displace 44,000. In 1996 the NBA managed to persuade the government
to run some water through the dam after the rains to provide fertile
"draw down" land for the now landless oustees to farm.
Although the draw down land is promised each year its implementation
has to be fought for. |
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Fishermen of the Bargi dam oustees fishing co-operative
with the dam in the background. Since the Bargi dam was completed
the Madhya Pradesh state government controls the fishing rights
to the reservoir. In 1994 NBA activists managed to secure these
rites for a co-operative of people who lost their homes and land
to the dam. |
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One of the collection points for fish caught by the
co-operative in the Bargi dam reservoir. Papri village, Madhya Pradesh.
Sugar cane cultivation, golf course resorts and water parks are
planned along its 460 km length. According to the NBA, construction
of the canal system for the SSP project will have displaced 170
00 families by the time it is completed. |
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NBA flag outside Maheshwar jail. |
