Question

Short note on tawa Matsya Sangh about hundred words

Answer 1

It is a federation of Fishworker’s cooperatives. It is an organisation that fights for the rights of the displaced forest dwellers of the Satpura forest in Madhya Pradesh.

The problem of displacement of people and communities is very widespread in our country. Whenever any dam is built or forest areas are declared sanctuaries for animals; it results in the displacement of thousands of people.
Effect of Displacement

Such displacement plays havoc in the lives of people. Their life is disrupted in the following ways:

Uprooting of villages: The villagers are forced to leave their homes and build new homes and start life afresh in other locations. The poverty of the people adds to the problem.

Uprooting of bastis: Even in the urban areas, when the bastis where the poor live are uprooted they are forced to move out of the city in far-off places. This disturbs their entire life. The work place and the schools of their children; which were previously accessible; become inaccessible. This severely disrupts their routine because of the distances between the outskirts of the city and the location of their school/place of work.





Class 7 civics

Tawa Matsya Sangh

Learning Goals:

Tawa dam and its effect

Formation of matsya sangh

Goals of fishermen

Narmada Bachao Andolan

It is a federation of Fishworker’s cooperatives. It is an organisation that fights for the rights of the displaced forest dwellers of the Satpura forest in Madhya Pradesh.

The problem of displacement of people and communities is very widespread in our country. Whenever any dam is built or forest areas are declared sanctuaries for animals; it results in the displacement of thousands of people.

Effect of Displacement

Such displacement plays havoc in the lives of people. Their life is disrupted in the following ways:

Uprooting of villages: The villagers are forced to leave their homes and build new homes and start life afresh in other locations. The poverty of the people adds to the problem.

Uprooting of bastis: Even in the urban areas, when the bastis where the poor live are uprooted they are forced to move out of the city in far-off places. This disturbs their entire life. The work place and the schools of their children; which were previously accessible; become inaccessible. This severely disrupts their routine because of the distances between the outskirts of the city and the location of their school/place of work.

Premise of the Tawa Matsya Sangh

The Tawa river flows through Betul before joining the Narmada in Hoshangabad. It originates in the Mahadeo hills of Chindwara district. The work of building the Tawa dam was started in 1958 and it was completed in the year 1978. It resulted in the submerging of large areas of forest and agricultural land. The life of the forest dwellers was reduced to nothing. Some of the displaced people settled around the reservoir. They found a new source of livelihood. Apart from their meagre farms, they started fishing. Their earnings were also very less.

The rights of fishing in the Tawa reservoir were given to private contractors by the government in the year 1994. These contractors drove away the local people in order to get cheap labour from outside. Those villagers who resisted leaving were threatened by the henchmen of contractors. At this point the villagers united and decided to set up an organisation for protecting their rights. This led to the formation of the Tawa Matsya Sangh (TMS).

The TMS demanded their right to continue fishing for their livelihood by organising rallies and chakka jams (blocking the roads)

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