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SAI INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
                                                   SESSION 202-21
                                                       CLASS VII
                                                      SUB- CIVICS
                                                   LESSON NOTES
                                       CH- 9 STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY

               SUB TOPIC 2- TAWA MATSYA SANGHA


                                        Tawa Matsya Sangh (TMS) is a federation of Fisherworker’s
               Tawa Matsya Sangh
                                        cooperatives, an organisation fighting for the rights of the
                                        displaced forest dwellers of the Satpura forest in Madhya
                                        Pradesh. TMS organised rallies and a chakka jam (road
                                        blockade), demanding their right to continue fishing for their
                                        livelihood. In response to their protests, in 1996, the Madhya
                                        Pradesh government decided to give to the people displaced by
                                        the Tawa dam the fishing rights for the reservoir.
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