Close to 30 odd villagers have been standing waist-deep in backwaters at Goghalgaon as a part of Jal Satyagarha. The protest is against the state government's decision to raise water level of Omkareshwar Dam in Narmada valley from 189 to 191 metres.<br /><br />With a rise in the water-level as many as 32 villages were submerged under the backwaters in the Nimar region. Around 125 families alone in Ghogalgaon, which is barely one-and-a-half kilometer away from the submerged area, have been affected by the government decision to raise the dam's water level.<br /><br />Hundreds of villagers from four neighbouring villages namely Toki, Kammankheda, Bada Kelva and Ekdhan have come together in what they call an 'unconstitutional submergence’.<br /><br />They claim that no prior announcement of acquisition and rehabilitation were made which is a flagrant violation of the Rehabilitation Policy.<br /><br />Shouting anti-government and anti-Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation (NHDC) slogans, the villagers are prepared to face the worse and will drown if need but will not flee from the villages.<br /><br />Video by: Shankar Mourya<br />Produced by: Manas Gurung<br /><br />------------------------------------------<br /><br />Subscribe to our channel: http://read.ht/fLZ<br /><br />Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/htTweets<br /><br />Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hindustantimes<br /><br />Watch more videos at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/video<br /><br />hindustantimes.com © 2015
