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Jamgaon locals call out illegal mining, crushing
Jamgaon locals call out illegal mining, crushing
ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 06:00 IST
Villagers claim that the illegal mining has damaged the crops and the blasting has killed the poultry
Villagers approach NGT, cite hazards of blasting, contractor’s lack of documebts and even deaths due the roadwork; the company claims it has government authorisation and that the people are demanding money
The villagers of Jamgaon in Mulshi are in a tussle with Roadways Solution India Private Limited over alleged illegal quarrying and crushing without compliance to environmental norms and regulations. The villagers also complained that the blasting by a mining company has damaged their houses and damaged the eco-sensitive zone of Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary. Now, Laxman Thombare, a
Mulshi Satyagraha: Remembering Indiaâs First Anti-Dam Struggle in its 100th Year
Ousted without rehabilitation in 1921 and jailed for resisting, the families of the 52 villages in Maharashtraâs Mulshi taluka who lost their land to the Tata Power dam face ever-growing troubles even today.
The villages scattered around the Mulshi Reservoir, owned by the Tata company. Photo: Nandini Oza
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The first anti-dam struggle in India and possibly even the world was against the Mulshi dam, built at the confluence of the Mula and Nila rivers near Pune in western Maharashtra.
Popularly known as the Mulshi
satyagraha (insistence on truth), this struggle was led by Pandurang Mahadev (Senapati) Bapat and V.M. Bhuskute in the early 1920s, spreading across not only the 52 submergence villages of the dam, but even outside, right up to Pune and beyond. What is important about this struggle a hundred years ago is that even women participated in large numbers  and were ja