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Over 500 people, including those straight affected by the Musi Riverfront Project, successful an unfastened entreaty to the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, demanded that alternate proposals for stream rejuvenation and river-basin ecology conservation beryllium diligently considered successful narration to the project.
The Cabinet Sub-Committee constituted by the authorities should not conscionable beryllium constricted to overseeing the implementation of the ‘flawed’ riverfront project, said the letter, besides signed by activists, experts, environmentalists and acrophobic citizens from crossed the country.
Initiated by the Musi Jan Andolan, a city-based corporate of citizens and activists, the petition besides said the State Government indispensable absorption connected minimising wide displacement, alternatively of carrying connected with the acquisition followed by rehabilitation.
The petition included a 11-point rebuttal to the presumption by the Managing Director of the Musi Riverfront Development Corporation, the Chief Minister’s nationalist code connected Musi River Rejuvenation Project connected March 13, arsenic good arsenic Mr. Revanth Reddy’s statements successful the State Assembly connected March 23, which they claimed, reduced each riverine issues to ‘rehabilitation’.
The missive was besides copied to the Congress party’s cardinal leadership, including Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh and Meenakshi Natarajan, too the Deputy Chief Minister and the sub-committee’s chairperson Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, and the governing committee of the MRDCL.
The signatories, including renowned societal activists Medha Patkar and Shabnam Hashmi among others, called upon the Chief Minister and the Cabinet Sub-Committee to guarantee a broad reappraisal of the project, including a elaborate social, ecological, and fiscal cost-benefit analysis.
The connection powerfully supported socio-ecologically dependable river-basin readying which safeguards the river’s earthy flows, prevents contamination astatine source, and protects the floodplains, rights and livelihoods of riparian communities, without resorting to commercialized riverfront development, concretisation of the river, and large-scale displacement. They expressed solidarity with the ongoing conflict successful antithetic bastis and colonies, against the project.
