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     Dada Side Hero Username: Dada Post Number: 2775 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 180.151.127.210 Rating: N/A |
Are you satisfied with the outcome of your fast? The administration was forced to stop at least three dams. They were going to build the Bhairon Ghati dam just 6 km from Gangotri, but it is still on the drawing board. They had spent 100 crore on the Pala Maneri dam and 550 crore on the Loharinag Pala dam, but both have been stopped. The government has notified the cancellation of these three projects. Also, 130 km of the Bhagirathi has been declared an ecosensitive zone by the National Ganga River Basin Authority, though no notification has been issued yet. Despite the dilly-dallying, even this is an achievement. However, the biggest achievement of my fast is that people are at least discussing about it. TEHELKA did a series on it and invited me to THiNK, where I got a phenomenal response. Several people told me they are shocked by the governmentâs apathy and want to do something. This is my real achievement. | ||
| Dada Side Hero Username: Dada Post Number: 2768 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 180.151.127.210 Rating: N/A |
he Ganga today is more polluted than when the Ganga Action Plan was launched in 1985. Dams, barrages, canals and extremely high pollution pose an ever-increasing threat to the health and life of the river http://tehelka.com/ganga-polluted/ | ||
| Dada Side Hero Username: Dada Post Number: 2767 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 180.151.127.210 Rating: N/A |
Nigamananda (who had studied in Delhi and, poignantly, left a middle-class home in Bihar in 1995 in search of âtruthâ) and Matra Sadan, the ashram he belonged to, had been waging a humbling and heroic battle against Haridwarâs mining mafia. Their biggest adversary was one stone- crushing company called Himalaya Stone Crusher. But it would be a mistake to dismiss this story as a small local issue because it is a symptomatic story about massive political clout and such flagrant corruption that it makes one despair. It is also a story that lays bare the sheer hypocrisy of the BJPâs public positions. Here is a party that has not only been trying to position itself as a champion of the anticorruption movement in India, it has always presented itself as the self-appointed custodian of Hindu pride. Yet, in the battle over Ganga between the Babas and the mining mafia, the party clearly â and repeatedly â sided with the mafia. Himalaya Stone Crusherâs biggest safety net was its closeness to the BJP and the RSS. | ||
| Dada Side Hero Username: Dada Post Number: 2766 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 180.151.127.210 Rating: N/A |
BABA RAMDEV knew how to catch attention. Infamously, he also knew how to run. Swami Nigamananda didnât know how to do either. While Ramdev was hogging national attention with emotive issues like declaring all black money stashed abroad as ânational wealthâ and threatening to hang the corrupt, far away from media glare, Nigamananda, 38, had been fasting for a mind-boggling 68 days for something much more concrete â and of even greater national implication. Nigamananda was fighting to save the Ganga. Finally, Nigamananda died on 13 June, in the same hospital, in the same ward where Ramdev was being treated in the ICU, after just seven days of fasting. Briefly, the glaring ironies around the stories of the two men created a furore. But soon â in death as in life â the real and urgent cause Nigamananda had been fighting for was quickly forgotten. | ||
| Dada Side Hero Username: Dada Post Number: 2764 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 180.151.127.210 Rating: N/A |
From the archives....but very very related to the present moment âIf We Can Do So Much For The Taj Mahal, Why Not For Ganga Ji?â http://tehelka.com/if-we-can-do-so-much-for-the-taj-mahal-wh y-not-for-ganga-ji/ The fight between Holymen and mining mafia http://tehelka.com/hell-in-holy-land/ |
