NARMADA ANDOLAN-Beyond Narmada

Beyond Narmada THE current phase of the agitation spearheaded by the Narmada Bachao Andolan emphatically and uncompromisingly underlines two truths: one that the demands of the Andolan are not only an articulation of the fundamental rights of the people of the Narmada valley, but of the vast populations which are being marginalised and even wiped out in the mindless march towards development for a few; and two, that the state having rejected the participatory course of designing development projects, is finding extensive and ruthless repression useless against the forces espousing real change.