Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 2 — A team of two French and two Indian members of a non-government organisation, Food First and Information Action Network, associated with International Human Rights, visited the erosion-hit Panchanandapur area in Kaliachak II on Friday just to study the rights for food of the erosion victims, officials said.
The team members are Mr Asini Maskame, Mr Michella Agar, Ms Arpita Ghosh and Ms G Pramila Kumar.
All of them have come from Burdwan district.
They will stay here for three more days to study whether the erosion victims’ right for food is violated.
Accompanied by block development officer of Kaliachak II, Mr D Roy, they interacted with the erosion victims.
“We are living without the basic civic amenities like habitat, sanitation or source of sustenance”, the villagers informed them.
They have been rendered homeless by erosion on the left bank of the Ganga in 1999.
Before meeting the villagers the members got the statistics of erosion since 1998 on the vulnerable left bank of the river in this district.
They visited Palashgachi on the right bank, an island which was formed, owing to a change in the river course from the western to the eastern side.
The local citizens’ forum, Ganga Bhangan Pratirodh Nagarik Action Committee, members accompanied the team.
The GBPNAC works in collaboration with other state NGOs on river erosion project, particularly the Ganga. #
Posted on Dec 3 , 2005 at 08.48 ( IST)
Friday, December 02, 2005
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