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Prominent societal activistic Medha Patkar has addressed a missive to the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy requesting him to champion the betterment of Musi stream on with the riverine communities, but not astatine the disbursal of each other. She urged him to shun immoderate unit against radical successful Mahatma Gandhi’s name.
Ms. Patkar, representing the All India Rivers Forum and National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), has called for the contiguous suspension of the projected unveiling of the Detailed Project Plans for Phase-1 of Musi River Rejuvenation scheduled for March 13, to which she is 1 among the authoritative invitees.
The contiguous model excludes the voices of the straight affected families, biology experts and societal activists, and successful a ideology grounded successful participatory governance, specified omissions render the proceedings antithetical to existent partnership, she mentioned.
Musi Riverfront Development is 1 among implicit 100 akin riverfront initiatives planned predominantly successful states governed by BJP and its allies, galore of which person raised profound societal and biology apprehensions, she said citing the illustration of Sabarmati task which received respective directives and corrective measures from the Gujarat High Court.
Listing the past of the Musi task since the precocious 1990s, Ms. Patkar noted that it is apt to displace thousands of households portion endangering practice structures. Recent demolitions person already affected astir 300 homes, with the provided alternate tenements falling abbreviated of residents’ needs and disrupting livelihoods.
Highlighting the exemption of societal interaction appraisal for the project, she expressed interest that alternatively of repealing the amendment to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency successful Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 by the erstwhile government, the Congress authorities has invoked this precise proviso for the exemption.
Ms.Patkar besides recovered problematic the piecemeal attack to the Detailed Project Report devoid of cumulative interaction assessment, and said for a task of this scale, advancing without deliberations with the affected families and due ineligible and clearance processes would inflict irreversible harm connected the ecosystem and socio-economic cloth of the state.
She sought nationalist merchandise of elaborate task program for the full task successful English, Telugu and Urdu, with a minimum 60 time play fo submission of suggestions and objections. Detailed dialog with the affected communities, nationalist hearings successful the affected areas, constitution of an autarkic committee for broad reappraisal of the task from a stream basin approach, contiguous withdrawal of each onshore acquisition notices, and transition of a authorities successful the Telangana State Assembly to repeal the amendments to the onshore acquisition authorities to reconstruct it to its archetypal signifier were different demands made by the activist.
