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Narmada Bachao Andolan logo. It reads, नर्मदा बचाओ, 'Save the Narmada River!' Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, Hindi: नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन, 'Save the Narmada River Movement') is an Indian social movement spearheaded by native tribals (), farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against a number of large dam projects across the Narmada ...
NAPM provides a forum for the coming together of a number of ideologies. In its own programmes, actions and conceptualisation of development perspectives on an emerging paradigm of sustainable development, equity, freedom, justice, and peace NAPM draws from the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, Karl Marx, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jyotirao Phule, Periyar Ramasami and others.
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit.
Rajiv Dixit [a] (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) [3] was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan.. His organisation promoted a message of swadeshi-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism.
Sunderlal Bahuguna was born in the village Maroda near Tehri, Uttarakhand.He claimed in a function arranged at Kolkata, that his ancestors bearing surname Bandyopadhyaya, migrated from Bengal to Tehri, 800 years ago. [7]
Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA; Save Childhood Movement) is an India-based children's rights movement. It was started in 1980 by Nobel Laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi. It campaigns against bonded labour, child labour and human trafficking, and promotes the right to education for all children. It has so far freed close to 100,000 children from ...
Alok Agarwal (born 25 August 1967) is an Indian social activist and political leader associated with the Aam Aadmi Party. [1] The State Convener of Aam Admi Party Madhya Pradesh, [2] Alok is also a member of National Executive Committee. [3]
Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Aandolan (Hindi: घर बचाओ घर बनाओ आंदोलन, 'save homes, make homes movement') is a people's movement that emerged in the backdrop of massive slum demolitions in Mumbai in 2003–04. [1]