Medha Patkar's stand is clear: If the Government wants to build big dams and displace people, then it must accept responsibility for the impacts. Read The Article
Well done CNNIBN for the interview. Although far from perfect but at least an attempt was made to tell the truth about the Narmada and NBA. The sincereity and simplicity of Medha Patkar came across along with the facts about how flawed and wrong is the SSP. I hope that the people under the leadership of NBA succeed in obtaining their right but more important change the parametres of development from an exclusive unsustainable pattern to an inclusive sustainable pattern. Small is beautiful.
( Posted: Thursday , May 04, 2006 at 23:18 )
Rajesh
Dear Rajdeep To an uninitiated, gullible Indian, it seems that Medha epitomises the extreme essence of Indian sense of sacrifice and great non voilent fight for a "noble cause". But tell me, is it not true that NBA has been responsible for stalling all rehabilitation work for the oustees----, to the extent that all kinds of oppressive and voilent measures are being used. Is there a sinister hidden agenda, more than what meets the eye????
( Posted: Thursday , May 04, 2006 at 18:49 )
Rajesh Patel
Please, go thorugh below mentioned link to get latest and updated information on Sardar Sarovar dam and its activities.
I would like if people who give support without knowing about Dam, like Aamir and other so many Sheep Followers, go through this link and know something about Dam. So atleast they have some knowledge to part with ethical discussion.
Here they can knowledge with all fact files with pictorial proof not like Ms. Mehga where Proof is less and activity is more.
http://sardarsarovardam.org/
I also request to Mr. Rajdeep and his team to get Something from this site to Get Little Idea of Dam and Activity of Sardar Sarovar Nigam Ltd.
Enjoy.
Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat.
Rajesh Patel Ahmedabad
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 18:18 )
Chirag Patidar
Dear Rajdeep,
Your programme “Being Medha – Fasting for a cause” was a crude joke. Probably you have deliberately ignored one important fact that sitting on dharnas, jal samadhi’s and hunger strikes is her business, which she is doing since 1987.
With 218 FIRs against the activists of her organization, I swear, only Medha Patkar can dare to compare her andolan with the most poised freedom struggle of the Country. Hats off to an Ahmedabad based NGO "national council for civil liberties" for bringing the truth before the nation.
Come down to MP and see her activities, i am ready to sponsor your visit.
Good luck to you.
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 17:16 )
Rajesh Patel
Dear Sir,
Why your people are highlighting onside of Megha Patkar. Tell me or inform me
1) Wheteher she runs NBA is registerted firm ?
2) How much she got in $ for oppositing such activity specially Narmada dam ?
3) Why she is protesting Govt officer to be enter into village where rehabiliation work is going on ?
4) They have put Gundas of NBA in MP where rehabiliation work is going. If you need I can send you scan copy of snap also.
5) In NBA infuencing villages, posters are there not to enter govt officials to do any type of survey. Do you know this ???
6) Why she is not advicing world bank and other NGOs from where they got many $$$ to give for rehabiliation ??? and why protecting Dam only ??
7) Did she visited any part of Kutch or Shaurashtra where people has to go 10-15 kms just for 2-3 buckets of water ?? Did any commenter who are also on back side of Megha, ever know this fact ?????
I hope and wish you must not highlight only one side picture and publicised the matter one side only.
Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat.
Rajesh
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 16:29 )
Sampathkumar Iyangar
Crusades/struggles for what one thinks is right are one thing, and farce fasts are another. The authorities must of course be not allowed cheat the displaced people by not compensating them fairly. The advisability of sinking more and more funds behind the project must indeed be reexamined through systematic cost benefit analysis in the light of escalating costs due to fair rehabilitation, mounting interest costs and diminishing benefits. People who benefit from rampant corruption and inefficiency in the project must definitely be nabbed. It is time the media treated hunger strikers on a par with streakers and suicide bombers. They all indulge in blackmail and prevent rational decision making. This applies equally to Patkar who undertakes indefinite fasts at the drop of a hat and Modi, who announced a 51-hour fast and triumphantly ended it much earlier! It was Mohandas Gandhi who degraded fasts from its original status of being a spiritual experience into a political weapon. The sooner the public and Media stopped entertaining such blackmailers, the better.
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 16:08 )
Dear Sir,
YOu are very rightly touched upon the point of escalting project cost. May i ask, who is holding project for last 20 years? If i m prime minister of india for one day i employ Medha and her company to compensate cost escalation from Rs.6000 Crore to Rs.25000 Crore and delayed benefit.
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Nishith
I would like to suggest Medha that if she is really want serious about fighting for people. Please go to the Kutch and Saurastra where not only people but the animals too die without water.
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 15:21 )
Kalpesh B
Rajdeep, Are you editing whatever your writer writes? If yes, I may not be you fan more as a Gujarati and if no, ask your staff to go through all aspects as a part of Journalism. If a person like you appraises Patkar, will not be justified to Journalism. Keep Modi's fasting Drama aside and think over people who are waiting for Water to come to their Fields and homes for long long years. Now, the time has come to get Narmada waters to their place by increasing height of Dam. I request you to personally visit Kutch and Saurashtra region and review your above slot for Patkar who is really doing nothing for really affected people. If you India TV report, you can clearly see her so called "constructive work". She is telling, even if somebody has not got land for farming is also a incomplete rehabilitation, than what about one family is not getting water for a week. If a man can not get land in time they can survive from doing some job work, but how man can survive without water which is I think government has declared basic need.Rajdeep, please try to be impartial on this issue. Waiting for correction or a true aspect change on your this Topic.
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 12:57 )
Sanjay
If Megha Patkar wanted to fight for a cause then there are much more serious causes in India then NBA that she could have taken up.
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 12:35 )
Pranav K Pandya
why did not you reporter asked any question which was supporting narmada? whole interview looked planed and it seems that you all are anti-development, anti gujarat. i can challange each and every fasle statements made by medha on one to one basis. ask her to comet again for an interview and ask us anything on narmada project, rehabilitation. ask her to give details of those who are displaced and still not got houses, land etc. is she ready for a debate, a live debate? news channels like you are for taking the truth out and not for showing what others think are right. we thought you people are here for giving news, showing truth but we are sorry to say that you all are just concerned with stories, you dont care what is truth. I challenge you that if any one has guts talk to us live for anything on narmada and we will prove that we are right, we dont want to prove others worng. Dare to bring the trugh out. My email id is given above and call us for a debate, call us for a correct news, if you want to show truth make another program... "
( Posted: Monday , May 01, 2006 at 12:08 )
dear pandyabhai,IBN after all like all secular band wagon are undermine the narmada project which is the life line of lakhs of people.the supreme court has already given enough guidelines for the states concerned to speedup the redressal of grievences of the displaced people.Medha patkar is a known left or communist sympathiser and she has a vested interest against the Modi government.now that the supreme court has taken the wind out of Medha she would along with arundhati roy and Aamir khan better visit the karnataka- tamilnadu border as the Kavery river water dispute is likely to heat up.They can even take up thr issue of the farmers suicide issue if they are keen and honest to help the displaced or affected people.
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