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As Narmada goes dry, environmentalist asks: Where’s Gujarat govt...
CV News/ Friday, May 17, 2019Senior Ahmedabad-based environmentalist Mahesh Pandya has sharply criticised the Gujarat government for failing to come up with water policy despite "grim" situation across the state. Pandya, who heads Paryavaran Mitra, told a seminar jointly called by the Gujarat Institute for Civil Engineers and Architects and Public ...
Investigation shows Narmada downstream “seriously” pollute...
By Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant, Swati Desai*
Our investigation regarding quality of water flowing in the Narmada river downstream of the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD), dated April 6, 2019, between 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. reiterates, what is commonly known now, that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is planned without considering its impact on the downs...
Abandon coal-based power plants, dams on Narmada river: MP 34 civil so...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Counterview Desk
As many as 34 civil society organizations of Madhya Pradesh, forming Jan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti, have, through a statement, put forward a list of demands before candidates fighting the Lok Sabha elections, ranging from abandoning new plans to have coal-based power plants to suspending fresh dams on the...
Stop Translocation of the Crocodiles Sardar sarover
Stop Translocation of the Crocodiles from the Lakes Near Sardar Sarovar Dam as translocation of crocodile is not a viable / appropriate solution, because it is short-sighted with long term impacts transfer of a problem from one site to other site, only.
The Gujarat State Forest Department has started relocating crocodiles from two ponds / impoun...
Gujarat, Central govt “mess” over poisonous Narmada waters...
CV News/ Sunday, February 10, 2019
Even as the Gujarat government is going ahead with Narmada Jubilee celebrations, Mother Narmada is allegedly facing it's worst-ever crisis. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in a statement says that after stopping Narmada water from big dams, the drinking water consumption was reduced, and now the rese...
Relocation of crocodiles from Narmada dykes for tourism safety “...
Counterview Desk
In a letter to the Union environment, forests and climate change minister, senior officials of the ministry under him and their Gujarat counterparts, including chief minister Vijay Rupani, top Vadodara-based environmentalist Rohit Prajapati has demanded that the government must immediately stop translocation of the crocodiles from...
South Gujarat tribal rights body seeks special state assembly discussi...
CV News/ Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The South Gujarat-based civil rights organization, Adivasi Kisan Sangharsh Morcha (AKSM), has asked 27 tribal legislators of Gujarat to demand a special discussion in the Gujarat state assembly, whose session begins on February 18. AKSM convener Romel Sutariya, in a statement, has said that the issue has become...
Will society wake up for the sake of Ganga, Narmada, other rivers? Won...
CV News/ Monday, January 21, 2019
Prof GD Agrawal
India's top civil rights network, National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), regrets, despite the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared himself Gangaputra in 2014 and named the ministry of water resources after Ganga, things have not changed. NAPM said, even today, one cannot igno...
Activists, workers sit on dharna in Madhya Pradesh for free flow of Ga...
CV News/ Saturday, January 19, 2019
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists and representatives of the workers of Century Mills sat on a day long dharna in Khargone, outside the Century Mills, in support of Swami Atmabodhanand, who is on indefinite hunger strike since October 24, 2018 for ensuring free flow of Ganga river. Atmabodhanand is a disc...
Only 10% villagers aware of rights of gram sabhas
A special conference of panches, sarpanches and representatives from villages of Narmada valley at Arjun Karaj, Badwani district, Madhya Pradesh, held under the auspices of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), regretted that only 10% of villagers were aware of the rights of gram sabhas. Those who participated at the meet included NBA leader Medha Patk...