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The administration has maintained that the Ken-Betwa Link Project is of national importance and will boost irrigation, drinking water supply and development.
From rehabilitation and compensation to environmental concerns, here’s what is driving the protests against the Ken-Betwa river-linking project
Previously, police broke up the protest against the Ken-Betwa Link in MP's Chhatarpur district. Families affected by the project launched a ‘Chita Andolan’.
Mr. Bhatnagar of Jai Kisan Sangathan had been on a hunger strike for 18 days and was leading the protest, where several people from Chhatarpur and Panna districts had been demonstrating since July 4 against the ₹44,000-crore project of the Union Government by tying nooses around their necks and lying on makeshift pyres in the river in a symbolic protest
Amit Bhatnagar claimed he was set to release documents alleging ₹400 crore-worth irregularities when the protest site was cleared.
Why does the project aim to do? How many villages and families are likely to be affected by it? What are the concerns of the tribal people regarding rehabilitation and compensation? Why has the project raised concerns among conservationists?