Why Narmada Bachao Andolan does not work on issues like education and health?
Narmada Bachao Andolan has a clear mandate to struggle for the just rights of the displaced people. But in addition to its path of struggle, it has taken up many constructive initiatives too. It set up and held 17 jeevanshalas (life-schools) in the tribal areas of the affected regions of the Narmada Valley providing education to hundreds of children deprived of it due to the absence of the government education machinery in these remote areas. It has also taken up tasks of watershed management and village based electricity generation through micro-hydel projects to create models of villages self-sufficient in their energy needs. 6. Most of the affected people have already taken the Special Relief Package. On one hand land acquisition and rehabilitation processes are still ongoing on a large scale in the areas affected by both Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dams. On the other hand purposefully under-valuing the Special Relief Package has further pauperized the affected people. The Andolan
