Thursday, March 6, 2008

Jan Hakk Yatra in Coastal districts of Orissa

Cuttack- Orissa
JHK yatra of NAFRE jan Andolan started in coastal orissa on 5th March from Buhalpur of Cuttack district. NGUS members, frontrunners of the yatra process in the coastal districts of orissa, addressed the mass with yatra objevtives and plan for the future. The meet was attended by Ms. Lakhi of NAFRE Jan Andolan, Ashis of CRY-Kolkata and Ms. Tilottama Das NEC member of NAFRE including a large number of villagers from different villages of Nischinta koili block. People mostly women attended the yatra program raised various issue affecting their livelihood and showed solidarity to both VCRO and NAFRE. The issues got discussed during the yatra were how people and will get their due right in terms of land, meaningful employment and other services such as health and education. Of these, womens issues were given major focus in the meet.
Kendrapada District of Orissa
On its second day yatra proceeded to Kendrapara district where a large mass gathering was organized in the peripherial village of Bhitarkanika national Park. People raised the issues such as how their basic human rights are getting violated everyday since after declaration of this National Park. They called for a larger movement to combat such acts which prohiobits them from accssing basic services such as road, health centres and schools. The yatra was attended by mostly members from fishermen community. How the issue will get highlighted at both state and national level got discussed in the yatra meet. Ms lakhi in her deliberation said that the issue will be taken up at all possible levels and solidairity will be extended to fight for ensuring basic human rights to these people.

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