MANGALORE: Even when the city is geared up for election, 10 activists from Mangalore are protesting in Delhi near the venue of the 46th Annual Board of Governors' Meeting (AGM) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Greater Noida.
They will be protesting shouting the slogan 'ADB Quit India, Quit Asia' along with nearly 300 activists from various parts of the nation and abroad till May 5, the last day of the AGM. Mangalorean activist Vidya Dinker, who leads Mangalore team, told TOI that the issue is important as far as Mangaloreans are concerned as candidates from BJP and Congress in Mangalore City South constituency take pride in ADB project.
"We, peoples' movements, mass organisations, struggle groups, trade unions, community organisations and many others from India and the Asia-Pacific region, call for a protest against the 46th AGM of ADB. The AGM will make decisions on key development issues for the Asia-Pacific region that will affect all of us now and in the future. India, which is touted as 'the emerging power in the region' and in the ADB, is hosting the AGM for the third time to showcase and endorse a 'development through empowerment' model put forth by the ADB. In fact, over the years, the Indian ruling class has been working hand in glove with the ADB in a mutually beneficial complicity at the expense of hundreds of millions of poor, marginalised and other toiling sections of the society," she said adding that delegates from Bangladesh, Indonesia, France and other countries too are taking part in the protest.
"The ADB claims to combat poverty in the region. But its poverty reduction strategy is merely a masquerade for prescribing a doomed model of rapid economic growth powered by the privatisation, commodification and financialisation of natural resources and basic needs like water, power, education, etc. Under the guise of good governance, the ADB supports profit-mongering, un-accountable and non-transparent private sectors. Under the pretext of addressing environmental and climate crises and alleviating poverty, the ADB continues to displace and alienate large numbers of people from their lands, homes, water sources and forests, and violates their rights to livelihood, ctizenship and participation in decision making," she alleged.
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