Demands of hunger strikers and  people displaced  by Indira Sagar and Omkareswar dams on Narmada in central India

Our main demands in the Indira Sagar area are that

     (1)     Agricultural land should be provided to the villagers who are facing fresh submergence in the thousands of acres of land now found in the surveys.           

        (2) All adult sons and adult unmarried daughters of cultivators should be provided land or SRG as directed by the High Court                 in the Order dated 8.09.2007 and which the State Government is refusing to comply with.

(3)     Landless families should be provided 5 acres land in the draw-down of the Indira Sagar reservoir, along with irrigation facilities.

(4)     Employment guarantee schemes should be provided in every R&R site such as New Harsud, Kalapatha, Bangarda where people are undergoing starvation.

(5)     Thousands of houses that have been deliberately and illegally been left out of the acquisition process after surveys preceding Section 4 Notification and after in many cases the service of notices under Section 9 of the Land Acquisition Act should be included and compensation and R&R entitlements provided.

(6)     Every R&R site should be leveled or where people have already spent thousands of rupees to build plinths in the undulating wastes of the R&R sites, compensation should be paid for the plinth filling.

For Omkareshwar, the demands are

(1)    Agricultural land for the cultivators,

(2)    land for the adult sons and unmarried adult daughters of the cultivators, as per the R&R Plan of 1993 for the Omkareshwar Project

(3)    Land for the landless families as per the condition of the environmental clearance.

(4)    Better facilities including sufficient potable water in the R&R sites.