Officials of Catholic Churches are keeping a hunger strike in support of demands for compensation and rehabilitation for 40,000 families affected by a major dam project in Madhya Pradesh. The officials of dam project claims that affected people have already been compensated from rehabilitation measures. In the hunger strike, police had to take many protestors forcefully to hospitals because of their deteriorating health conditions but later more joined the strike to replace them. Activist Medha Patkar was also hospitalized as a result of the encounter with police, during cane charge.
As reported by ucanews.com, His Excellency Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, who is based in the Madhya Pradesh remarked that “The current situation is a matter of concern as nobody should be deprived of his or her right to life and so we call the government to conduct a fresh survey to determine how many more people should be offered rehabilitation packages.”
Catholic Church officials reminded the worsening conditions of the lay people in the state whose life is at hold without even having basic necessities of life.
Source: www.ucanews.com
