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Courtesy of Environment Support Group, Bangalore.
The Rapid Action Force of the police moving into the Public Hearing held on 5th July 2000 in Bangalore. The Panel was a mute witness to the brutal arrest of several. The case with NHRC against one such arrest is documented here. (July 2000) |
Re-planting bananas on fields that are in the corridor alignment. This community is unaware of the fact that they might be displaced. The plants will yield after a year or more. Perhaps the field will not exist then.(October 2001) |
This is a picture of a house "that is not being touched", but the land right outside the house is notified for acquisition. And the company claims they haven't touched dwellings. The expressway corridor is 220 feet wide.(October 2001) |
Another major claim of the company is that wetland cultivation is not touched. That this claim is specious is evident from the quality of the land in this picture, it is paddy fields.(October 2001) |
Behind the hillock is the Badamanavarthi Kaval forest. Over 160 acres of this forest will be lost for the corridor.(October 2001) |
Agara Tank is one of the several tanks the silt of which
is allowed for construction use. This is likely to cause serious damage
to the watershed and the waterbody..the backbone of the rainfed agriculture
in the region.(October 2001)
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A view of areas outside of Bangalore which will be acquired for the corridor. This is the kind of land that will be acquired. Closer to Mysore the land is much more fertile and irrigated. (October 2001) |