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Villagers Say They Lost Their Lands As Yamuna Changed Course

Villagers Say They Lost Their Lands As Yamuna Changed Course

by The Daily Eye Team December 19 2016, 3:55 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

It used to be an almost 2-kilometre-long walk to the water, said Nakshatra Nagar as he pointed to the Yamuna river flowing right next to his village, Kambakshpur. Over the past decade, this village just off the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway has come closer to the Yamuna – maybe too close for comfort for the residents. Locals said that that in the past few years, not only has the river shifted closer to their village, but it has also submerged some of their farms and divided their land holdings.

 

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Piroj Wadia


PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and  The Daily,  and   edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is  equally ardent about television as  she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes.   She has  served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA)  and the  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is  researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.


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