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India Wire Google Earth to save Indian villages
India Wire Google Earth to save Indian villages | Google Earth to save Indian villages |
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| by Sufia Tippu | |
| Thursday, 19 October 2006 | |
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Farmers of a small taluka (group of villages), about 100 km from Mumbai, have used Google Earth in their fight against the state government’s decision of acquiring 11,000 hectares of land for SEZs. Aided by activists of an NGO, SEZ Hatao Sangharsh Samiti, an anti-SEZ group, is using pictures of land in the village taken from Google Earth as a proof of it being fertile. The local officials, saying that the same land was infertile, had earmarked it for a SEZ. There are 24 villages that would be affected by the government’s decision. According to reports, the authorities’ version of the type of land in the taluka is contradictory to what Google Earth showed. Activist Vaishali Patil said that the local officials had submitted a report to the state government about the land being infertile and low in production, but this did not show up on the satellite pictures. |
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