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
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