| Medha Patkar |
Medha Patkar in 2002
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| Born |
1 December 1954 (age 58)
Mangalore |
| Organization |
National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) |
| Political movement |
Narmada Bachao Andolan |
Medha Patkar 
pronunciation (help·info) (born 1 December 1954) is an Indian
social activist. She is known for her role in
Narmada Bachao Andolan. She has also filed a public interest petition in the Bombay High Court against
Lavasa along with other members of
National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), including
Anna Hazare[citation needed].
Early life
Medha Patkar was born in
Mumbai,
Maharashtra in a
Kudaldeshkar family to Indu and Vasant Khanolkar, a trade union leader and freedom fighter.
[1] She did her
M.A. in
Social Work from
Tata Institute of Social Sciences.{{Citation needed|
Life
She was often known for her extreme view on growth of country and liberalization.
[2]
Author
Jacques Leslie
devoted a third of his book, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams,
Displaced People, and the Environment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
2005), to a portrait of Patkar as she planned to drown herself in rising
reservoir waters behind the
Sardar Sarovar Dam, against whose construction she fought for two decades.
Awards and honors
Criticism
Patkar's refusal to participate in protest against a proposed
Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project, in her home region of
Konkan,
has made local activists there unhappy and sad. One Konkan activist
accused her of highlighting issues to "further her own purpose", and
then abandoning them.
[3]
Though she is past employee of Tata Empire, Patkar also played a pivotal role in driving out the
Tata Nano plant from
Singur,
West Bengal, ostensibly due to insufficient benefits to locals and use of fertile land for industry. However, the locals later appealed to
Tata Motors to set up the plant at Singur accepting that they were misled.
[4] At the height of the agitation Ratan Tata had made a caustic remark questioning the source of funds of the agitators.
[5]
In 2010 she and her associates were chased and thrown eggs and tomatoes
at, by the tribal people in the Maoist violence-hit Dantewada district
in Chhattisgarh.She later alleged at a press conference: "It was all a
government-sponsored protest in Dantewada in police presence. Those who
threw eggs and tomatoes were brought from a relief camp by the
government."
[6]
References
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-06/india/38326760_1_defamation-cases-medha-patkar-narmada-bachao-andolan
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