NBA files rejoinder in Supreme Court

New Delhi, Apr 29 (UNI) Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) seeking stay against the ongoing construction to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam project today filed a rejoinder in the Supreme Court.

The NBA has strongly refuted the claim of the Madhya Pradesh government that the oustees have alredy been rehabilitated.

The petitioner have also contended that no rehabilitation has taken at all and 16,000 additional families have already come in the submergence zone and the contruction of the dam cannot be permitted to go on at the cost of tribals and farmers who are the wost affected. The matter will come for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday.

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