River Sanrakshan Satyagraha 2008

Tarun Bharat Sangh and Jal Bhagirathi have launched a national campaign to mark 2998 as the year of River Sanrakshan. From 1 January to 31 March, they ran a series of campaigns to link people with rivers and study rivers in 22 states. Local people and NGOs organized these meetings. From 1 April, they started another series of dialogues with state governments, panchayats and municipalities to reduce pollution, exploitation and encroachment of rivers. They have also worked with PRI representatives to involve them in river sanrakshan. Read more >>

Rajendra Singh
Prof. M S Rathore

Prof G D Agarwal's Fast Unto Death against projects on Bhagirathi

Noted environmentalist G D Agarwal has announced a fast unto death against five dams proposed on the Bhagirathi river. To support his protest, a public meeting to save the River Ganga was organized in New Delhi addressed by Sunita Narain, Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra, M C Mehta, Anupam Mishra, Dunu Roy and Rajendra Prasad. The speakers emphasized the Ganga’s special qualities and its importance in the Indian ethos. They called on the government to reconsider its decision to allow the dams and preserve the river from its source in Gomukh to Dharasu, a distance of 125 km. A minimum flow of 60-70 per cent should be maintained, they said. The need for energy was because of rapid urbanization and industrialization, that called for a rethink of India’s development paradigm, the speakers said. You can read more about the proposed projects here. Read more >>

Details of Yamuna Satayagraha >>

Yamuna Satyagraha takes action against Commonwealth Games Village

Dear All The government of India and Delhi government is engaged in encroachment of Yamuna bed for Common wealth games. In protest of this encroachment Jalbiradari has launched a Satyagraha from August 1, 2007. On the 10th day of this Satyagraha Jalbiradari is going to stop the works of common wealth game village. You are kindly requested to participate in this Satyagraha by reaching Delhi on August 10, 2007, behind Akshardham Mandir at 10.00 am. Your cooperation is solicited.

Yours

Rajendra Singh

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The team of Jal Biradari organized a Yamuna Satyagraha Yatra from Delhi to Kosi-Mathura, Agra up to Uttrakashi on 26 to 1 July 2007. The message of this Yatra is requested society and Government to clean and restore Yamuna. Here is the report.

River Yamuna Satyagrah shall aim to bring home to all concerned ranging from a fishermen and farmer in the villages (through a public meet) to a decision maker (through the fact finding report) in Delhi and in other major towns all along the river that it is in our common interest that the river Yamuna is retrieved and revived from the sad state that we have together put it into. Read More>>

Jal Satyagraha launched

The problem of the River Yamuna is a problem of pollution and encroachments. Both have to be tackled to restore the river to its former glory, felt experts at a meeting organized in New Delhi on 19 January, 2007, to discuss the river’s crisis in the context of India’s water problems, called by the Rashtriya Jal Biradari. Read More>>

Need for community-driven water management system stressed at CII summit

Community-driven decentralisation of water management is the only solution for water security and appropriate availability of water for everybody, said Mr. Rajendra Singh, Founder, Tarun Bharat Sangh at the “International Conference on India’s Water Economy: Law and Sustainable Development” organised by the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, Society of Indian Law Firms and the Ministry of Water Resources here on Saturday. Communities should be given responsibility of water management along with the rights for water conservation and utilisation, Mr.Singh said. Read More >>

Uprising on the banks of the Yamuna

Today as we celebrate the 150 yrs of our freedom struggle. Today as we remember and pay our sincere homage to those countless freedom fighters who gave their all for the political freedom that we have a good fortune to live in, let us spare a thought for a neo colonialism that we are faced with. Read More >>

Discussion water related issues

Rashtriya Jal Biradri and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti jointly organised ‘Jal Satyagraha 2007’ – Jal Chintan Shivir at the Kirti Mandap in Gandhi Smriti, 5, Tees January Marg,New Delhi on 18th of April 2007. This date was symbolic as it marked the 100th year of Satyagraha launched by Mahatma Gandhi at Champaran in  Bihar. Around 150 water activists and Chief Executives from Gandhian and social organizations from all over the country attended the shivir and participated in the deliberations. Read more >>

New documents

Arvari, a People's Movement, by Shweta Bhardwaj and Isha Baweja, Institute of Rural Management, Anand.

This documents our work on reviving the Arvari river in Alwar, Rajasthan. You can download the PDF file here.

Results of the study of pollution of Hindon River

This document gives an overview of the pollution problems plaguing the Hindon river (hindi). Click here to download the PDF file.