Submission by Khedut Ekta Manch to the High Court appointed committee on Limestone mining in Bhavnagar

KHEDUT EKTA MANCH – GUJARAT
Khet Bhavan, Near Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad 380027
Tel.: 7359051818 Email: khedutektamanch.2019@gmail.com
25th June 2019

To,
The High Court Appointed Committee (Impact of Limestone Mining in Bhavnagar)
Bhavnagar

Respected members,
As a non-profit farmers’ organization working on issues of agriculture and rural economy, we would like to draw your attention to the very serious issues emerging in the wake of sanctioning of mining lease in the area without the prior informed consent of the thousands of families and people who are to be divested of their livelihoods.

The issue is not of livelihoods alone but of the loss of the entire ecosystem, water bodies, biodiversity and the endangered and protected lion population in the area. We therefore request you to carefully examine the issues we raise in our submission to you. We further request you to seek more information from the officials and the concerned departments on these issues.

Our demands therefore are:

1. To recommend that all mining activities be stopped with immediate effect permission and lease.
2. We also expect the committee to advise the concerned government departments to ensure that before sanctioning of any such land for non-agriculture use, prior informed consent of the affected people be made mandatory from not only the Gram Panchayat but Gram Sabha as well.

We also request the committee to advise the government that a mandatory livelihood loss survey be undertaken prior to such projects being sanctioned on agriculture land.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Sagar Rabari

President

Read the full representation:
http://www.sacw.net/article14130.html


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