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| Marwah youth on hunger strike against construction of 1200 MW Bursar project | | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 8: After holding protest on weekly basis, the youth of Marwah area of Kishtwar District are on hunger strike since last five days against the construction of 1200 MW Bursar power project.
The residents of Marwah had intensified its protest after the government failed to address the issues and concern raised by the people.
They termed the visit of high level environment committee team in the area last year a mere eyewash who presented concocted facts and promises to the people.
As per the details available with Early Times, Scores of residents from different areas of Marwah assembled at Tehsil headquarter to protest against the construction of the dam saying it was against the interests of the inhabitants." The local political and social activist Abdul Wahid told the Early Times that a group of local youths had decided to sit on indefinite strike added that the condition of few of them had turn ugly since they had left the food and water around five days ago.
He said that no official from the government or the administration approach the agitating people who are holding protest in the area as well as to those who were on hunger strike added around one thousand five hundred families living in the area were to be relocated and that more than 5,000 kanals of cultivable land would go under the said proposed dam which will virtually make the people land less as well as the people will be forced to migrate from the area as there was no alternative land available for the people where they can live.
He said that scores of villages including Hatri, Hanzal, Harji, Gujjer Basti, Bumbri, Doripath, Butpora, Lone Pora, Manzgam and Astangam would get submerged in dam waters.
"The government plans to rehabilitate people at some other location but the point is that we don't want to leave our ancestral place as it has also been a means of livelihood for us," said Ghulam Rasool Magrey.
"Once the project started, it will make 20000 Population displaced, thousands other vulnerable to environmental threat" Magrey added.
"Once the construction work starts over 20000 people will get displaced - - while those left behind will neither find land for burial of dead or for the cremation - - - everything will get submerged in water" said Magrey.
He warned the government and the NHPC of serious repercussions in case they go ahead with the proposal of construction of the Dam in the area.
The protesters have appealed the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and the NHPC to look into the matter. |
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