NBA Formation

About Narmada River

The waterway Narmada is the biggest west-streaming waterway in the Indian promontory, that emerges on the level of Amarkantak in the Shahdol region of Madhya Pradesh. It covers the provinces of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and portions of Rajasthan. Its course is 1312 km to the Arabian Sea through lavish woods, slopes, rural districts, and rough chasms. It has around 41 feeders, encompassed by 3 mountain scopes of Satpura, Vindhya, and Maikal, and on the fourth side converges into the Arabian Sea. On its bowl, the towns comprise 81% and involve predominantly ancestral populaces comprising Bhils, Gonds, Baigas, and others whose essential occupation is horticulture. The Narmada Bowl is wealthy in its normal assets....

Narmada Bachao Andolan – How did it Begin?

Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most remarkable mass development, which began in 1985, with the development of a colossal dam on the Narmada stream. According to the Narmada Dam Project, the arrangement was to work north of 3000 of all shapes and sizes dams along the stream. The proposed Sardar Sarovar Dam and Narmada Sagar were to uproot in excess of 250,000 individuals. The huge battle of the Save the Narmada Movement was over the resettlement or the recovery of these individuals....

Narmada Bachao Andolan – Key Points

After the freedom, India’s most memorable Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, required the development of dams on the Narmada stream to capture abundant water streaming into the Arabian Ocean going through Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to help nearby individuals and advancement the country.  Two of the biggest proposed dams were Sardar Sarovar and Narmada Sagar. The Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal supported the Narmada Valley Development Project, which included 30 huge dams, 135 medium dams, and 3,000 little dams including raising the level of the Sardar Sarovar dam. In 1985, subsequent to finding out about the development of the Narmada Dam Project, Medha Patkar and her partners visited the undertaking site and saw that task work was being checked because of a request by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India....

NBA Formation

The leading spokesman of Narmada Bachao Andolan was Medha Petkar and Baba Amte who received Right Livelihood Award in 1991. The campaign included court actions, strikes, and rallies and was joined by many NGOs with local people and activists. There were several groups supporting which included Gujarat-based Narmada Asargrastha Samithi, Maharashtra – based Narmada Dharangrastha Samiti, and so forth....

Role of World Bank in Narmada Bachao Andolan

World Bank has worked on Narmada Bachao Andolan after clearance from Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal. In the year 1985, World Bank agreed for financing the Sardar Sarovar Dam with a contribution of around 450 million dollars without consultation with the indigenous population. World Banks participation in these projects came to be canceled in the year 1993....

Success of Narmada Bachao Andolan

Narmada Bachao Andolan won the “Right Livelihood Award” which aimed to bring justice and issues of land displacement, rehabilitation policy at the national level, and also development planning without displacement have become national issues. NBA was effective in multiple strategies and had won certain important battles like the exit of Worl Bank from Sardar Sarovar in 1993, there was a halt of Sardar Sarovar construction in 1994-99, and also the withdrawal of foreign investors....

FAQs on Narmada Bachao Andolan

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