Who is a major driving force behind the 'Narmada Bachao Andolan'?
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar is the principal founder and leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, launched in 1985 against the Sardar Sarovar and other dams on the Narmada river. She organised tribal communities, farmers and environmentalists, led padyatras and indefinite fasts, and took the displacement and rehabilitation issue to the Supreme Court.
Anna Hazare led the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal movement; Shantha Sinha is known for anti-child-labour work (MV Foundation); Manasi Pradhan campaigns against violence on women. None of them is linked to the NBA.
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