Full Coverage: Land

30.08.2006 Suicides by farmers in the west Indian state of Maharashtra have been on the rise despite a relief package announced by the Indian Prime Minister. In northern Maharashtra the number of farmer suicides in 2006 has inched close to the cumulative figure for the past four years.

24.08.2006 The situation in the Narmada valley today is nothing unexpected yet the most shocking. The Sardar Sarovar Dam, with the height raised, has silently killed the Adivasi communities in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh and many in Badwani and Dhar districts of Madhya Pradesh too. These generations' old Adivasis in the Satpura and Vindhya have lost their main sources of livelihood, land, to the sea that the roaring river water is converted to.

07.08.2006 People from the states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, UP, West Bengal, New Delhi and other parts of India joined farmers from the Narmada valley at Rajghat, near Badwani in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to protest against the displacement and submergence of villages by the waters of the Narmada dam. Read press release by the Narmada Bachao Andolan.