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Medha Patkar's demand accepted

Mumbai June 12. The Maharashtra Cabinet has accepted the demand of the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader, Medha Patkar, regarding the rehabilitation of 899 tribal families affected by the Sardar Sarovar Dam project.

The Chief Minister, Sushilkumar Shinde, placed the demands before the Cabinet yesterday.

The Cabinet decided that an affected village would be rehabilitated at one place only. The Cabinet would approve the Action Taken Report before sending it to the Narmada Control Authority (NCA).

An official release said that the claims of the project-affected — submitted to the task force for rehabilitation — should be forwarded to the Grievances Redressal Authority and if there is no positive solution, the list of claims should be sent to the NCA. If the project-affected demand farmland or residential plots, their demands would be considered, the Cabinet decided.— UNI

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