Families protest govt move to assimilate rehabilitation colonies into panchayats
The residents have also been protesting for months over lack of basic facilities, such as a drainage system and water supply, and seeking employment for the displaced.
Tadvi said, "We live in rehabilitation colonies without proper approach roads and water supply... we receive interrupted power supply... The construction of the homes is sub-standard and the structures are already in a dilapidated state.”
After the state government decided to assimilate 80-odd rehabilitation colonies of the displaced families of the Sardar Sarovar Dam project into the nearest village panchayats, families from Shira rehabilitation colony in Narmada district have started a sit-in protest since Monday seeking a cancellation of the order.
Threatening to launch an aggressive agitation, the residents said on Wednesday that the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited had failed to comply with its assurance that the demands put forth by the residents during their agitation in 2016, when the affected residents had carried out an eight-month-long hungerstrike, would be considered.
The residents have also been protesting for months over lack of basic facilities, such as a drainage system and water supply, and seeking employment for the displaced.
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