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Other articles where Narmada Bachao Andolan is discussed: Medha Patkar: …which in 1989 became the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA; Save the Narmada). The NBA’s major aim was to provide project information and legal representation to the concerned residents of the Narmada valley.
May 31, 2017 · Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is a social movement consisting of adivasis, farmers, environmentalists, and human rights activists against a number of large dams being built across the Narmada river, which flows through the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, all in India.
Jun 22, 2022 · It is in this context that the story of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), and its grassroots struggle against the construction of a series of dams on the Narmada river, needs to be revisited. Through the 1980s and 1990s, this iconic grassroots movement, which was spearheaded by a coalition of local Adivasi s and farmers working with environmental and human rights activists, was widely spoken of.
These NGOs allied in 1989 to form the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), or the 'Save Narmada Movement', led by Medha Patkar. Since 1985, Patkar had been organizing protest marches against the dam. Unlike other social justice organizations in India at the time, the NBA directly opposed dam construction altogether and proposed various development alternatives, including decentralized methods of water harvesting.
Oct 25, 2022 · From 2001, as the dam neared completion, the Narmada Bachao Andolan shifted from its anti-dam stand to working on resettlement. While most of its old time-members have left except for Patkar, its ...
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is an Indian social movement initiated by native tribals (Adivasis), farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against constructing of a large number dams and projects across river Narmada. The river flows through the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is one ...
Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement, started in 1985, against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river. Narmada is the India's largest west flowing river, which supports a large variety of people with distinguished culture and tradition ranging from the indigenous (tribal) people inhabited in the jungles here to the large number of rural population.
