Organizer: National Alliance of People’s Movements
Venue: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
Description:
National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) invites to resist forced displacement and land acquisitions across the country and demand for a comprehensive legislation on development planning. From 2000 onwards people's movements have successfully resisted land grab in Kalinganagar, Niyamgiri, Singur, Nandigram, Sompeta, Chandrapur, Raigadh, Karla, Narmada Valley, Jagatsinghpur, Mumbai and thousands of other places. Farmers, peasants, landless labourers and everyone together have fought to protect their land rights. In the same vein communities dwelling in forests have fought to claim their rights over the land they have been residing for generations and eking their livelihood from. Many lives have been lost in this process too.
NAPM demands the following:
- Repeal land acquisition act and enact a comprehensive national development, no forced displacement and rehabilitation bill instead of two separate legislations
- Put moratorium on all acquisitions until the process for a new comprehensive legislation is complete
- Issue a white paper on all the land acquisitions, displacement caused and rehabilitation completed since independence
The dharna is being joined by the groups whose control over land entitlements ensured by the forest rights act will be threatened by these two legislations, the fish workers living on the coast and adivasis threatened by mining and peasants and agricultural workers threatened by SEZs and infrastructure projects. The labouring poor from the cities who face eviction from their dwellings and their livelihood threatened by various developmental activities too will join the dharna and so are the peasants whose land is constantly being taken by the urban development authorities for urbanisation.
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Contact details:
Seela Mahapatra,
National Alliance of People’s Movements,
6/6, Jangpura B, Mathura Road,
New Delhi – 110014
Tel: 9212587159
email: napmindia@napm-india.org
Website: http://napm-india.org
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