Yatra reaches Indore: questions raised on food security
Indore, March 15: Mumbai Delhi DMIC Virodhi Sangharsh Yatra today reached Indore after traversing through Gujarat. Medha Patkar, Anil Trivedi, Tapan Bhattacharya and Narmada Bachao Andolan activists welcomed the yatris at the Indore railway station. The yatra visited Kali Billod village near Pithampur Industrial Area, where section 4 notices under the Land Acquisition Act have been issued without even intimating them. The farmers came to know of it from someone in Indore since notices were published in two lesser circulated newspapers. They challenged this, sent their reservations to the collector, and even met the Chief Minister. Mr. Chauhan promised them that not a single inch of land will be acquired without the consent of farmers. Even then, the collector passed the award at an extremely low rate for their land. The farmers approached the High Court, and finally got a stay on some portion of the land owing to some procedural irregularities, but the forceful acquisition is still hanging over their heads. The farmers pledged to join the Jantar Mantar Kisan Khet Mazdoor Mahapanchayat in Delhi on March 18.
Later in the evening during a public meeting with the intelligentsia of Indore, Medha Patkar, Bhupinder Singh Rawat, Nasreen Bi, Advocate Anil Trivedi, Tapan Bhattacharya, Ram Babu Agarwal, J. P Singh and others spoke about disaster being planned under the DMIC. B.S. Rawat said, "The time has come when we need to stop any further acquisition, and keeping in mind the growing population, fix a certain amount of land for food security, otherwise we are threatening the future of our generation".
Medha Patkar speaking at the meeting said, "The Madhya Pradesh government has not yet been able to rehabilitate the lakhs of people affected by dams on the Narmada, and yet they are planning to displace thousands of people in the name of development again, under the DMIC". Babu Singh Patel of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti said, "Acquisition of thousands of acres of fertile land will threaten and exposes the claims and seriousness of the Chief Minister in increasing food grain production in Madhya Pradesh.
Adv. Anil Trivedi said, "Legally speaking, the project planning is faulty in many ways and we need to challenge this. The challenge to illegal implementation is one thing, but the question of democratic development planning has to be addressed. DMIC is an attack on sovereign rights of citizens of a sovereign nation".
The yatra will tomorrow visit the knowledge city, Ujjain, affected project people and also those of Shewerkhedi Dam nearby, water of which will be diverted for industries. Another team of the Yatra will go to Jaipur, where they will address a press meet and a public meeting.
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