"Doctors examined her last night and found that her blood pressure and sugar level were low. In the morning, they went to examine her again, but Patkar and the other agitators refused to be examined," said Additional Collector D K Nagendra, who is camping in the area.
Patkar (62) and 11 other activists have been on a hunger strike for nine days at Chikhalda in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.
Meanwhile, the additional collector claimed that the people whose houses would face submergence after the gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam were closed in neighbouring Gujarat were moving to the rehabilitation sites, offered to them by the government, in large numbers and that there had not been any untoward incident anywhere.
However, hundreds of the affected people today marched to the Narmada Valley Development Authority office in the district and demanded to know from the officials as to where and how the process of rehabilitation was taking place.
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"The government is not at all serious about the rehabilitation," alleged Rajukhedi, while criticising Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for "only making big statements".
Thousands of families in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani, Dhar, Alirajpur and Khargone districts would have to vacate their houses, which would be submerged once the gates of the dam were closed and the water level in its catchment area rose.
The Centre recently allowed the closing of the dam's gates in a phased manner.
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