page_title: Medha Patkar
section_title: Kovvada Nuclear project
hierarchical_section_title: Medha Patkar / Career as activist / Kovvada Nuclear project
caption_attribution_description: English: Medha Patkar in March 2012
context_page_description: Medha Patkar is an Indian social activist working on various crucial political and economic issues raised by tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. She is an alumnus of TISS, a premier institute of social science research in India.
  Patkar is the founder member of the 32 years old people's movement called Narmada Bachao Andolan in three states: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. NBA has been engaged in a struggle for justice for the people affected by the dam projects related to the Sardar Sarovar dam project, especially those whose homes will be submerged, but have not yet been rehabilitated. She is also one of the founders of the National Alliance of People's Movements, an alliance of hundreds of progressive people's organisations. In addition to the above, Patkar was a commissioner on the World Commission on Dams, which did a thorough research on the environmental, social, political and economic aspects and impacts of the development of large dams globally and their alternatives. She was the national co-ordinator and then convenor of National Alliance of People's Movements for many years and now continues to be an advisor to NAPM.
context_section_description: Patkar expressed a strong opposition to the land acquisition in Kovvada of Ranasthalam mandal in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh saying that the nuclear plant would be a disaster for ecology as well as people of region.
caption: Medha Patkar in March 2012
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