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Counterview Desk 0pen letter to the President of India by Prakash N Shah of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Gujarat, and Dwarika Nath Rath of the Movement for Secular Democracy: We the Indian citizens residing in Gujarat are here with submitting this memorandum with much concern and anguish. Of course it is all about the Narmada Project. Since the inception of this Project, Gujarat has passed through various phases, positive as well as negative. But the matter which causes the most anxiety is the present scenario wherein the very objective of the project has been changed. It’s basic objective was to make its water available for drinking and irrigation. And yet Gujarat is still thirsty and its fields are parched. In that case whom do the height the dam increased and the gates are ready for? Who are going to benefit? The recent factual details of the Narmada Project in Gujarat: The main objective of the project was to make its water available for drinking and to i...

Gujarat oustees' protest a year ago Counterview Desk A London School of Economics and Political Science research, carried out by two Indian researchers, SA Ayiar, an economic journalist with the Cato Institute, and Prof Neeraj Kaushal of the Columbia University, has suggested 70% of the Narmada dam oustees who were sent packing to resettlement : colonies in late 1980s and early 1990s may still not happy with their living conditions.

Counterview Desk Narmada Bachao Andolan statement on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday bash at Narmada dam on September 17: The statement by the chief minister of Gujarat, Mr. Vijay Rupani on Narmada Dam inauguration, on the eve of the Grand Ceremony planned to celebrate PM’s birthday begins and ends with falsehood. It is full of lies as well as serious mistakes, certainly it doesn’t behove the chief minister of state who has to control, operate and monitor the monstrous project. We have witnessed about this giant, controversial dam during the last 32 years and once again will experience on this special occasion which needs to be dissected and exposed; the plan is of ‘Dedicating the Dam to the Nation’, hence all the people across the country must know the truth through the response from the people of Narmada Valley. First and the foremost, how has Rupani calculated a period of 56 years since the laying of the foundation stone for today’s Sardar Sarovar Dam?...

By  A  Representative Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court division bench Gita Mittal has asked the lieutenant governor (LG), Delhi, to restore the Urdu-medium Qaumi Senior Secondary School, demolished nearly four decades ago, during Emergency, asking the Delhi government to find a place for rebuilding it. It is currently being run on borrowed land of the Delhi Eidgah ground in tin sheds.

Dholera SIR farmers on fast By  A  Representative Even as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Ahmedabad after agreeing to fund the Rs 1 lakh crore bullet train and promising huge Japanese investments in the Delhi-Mumbai Investment Region (DMIC), farmers across Gujarat protested against the move, saying the Japanese money would take away their land.

By A Representative As Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes ahead with his unprecedented birthday bash at the Narmada dam on September 17, reports from the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh say the water levels have risen to 128.50 metres, higher than ever before, with waters entering starting to enter Rajghat and Nisarpur villages in Badwani district. Rajghat shot into prominence recently after the state administration tried to "demolish" the Gandhi Samadhi, where the ashes of the Mahatma, Kasturba and Mahadev Desai have been kept.

By Rajiv Shah A high-profile study , carried out by well-known international health journal, “Lancet”, has calculated that India’s health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ranking is a poor 127th among 188 countries it has analyzed to find out how well are different countries across the globe are doing for achieving the United Nation’s goals.