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Protest against U.S. water trade mission
Staff Reporter
Bangalore: Opposing the U.S. Water Trade Mission to India, members of the People's Campaign for Right to Water – Karnataka have planned a massive protest in the city on February 28.
According to Kshitij Urs, one of the members, the U.S. government and an exclusive group of American business executives are arriving in India on February 28. “In their own words, they will be here on a mission to ‘Tap the $50 billion Indian Water Market',” Mr. Urs said.
First stop
The U.S. water trade mission has selected Bangalore as its first destination. The activists, in association with Rajya Raitha Sangha, Samata Sainik Dal and other like-minded organisations, will stage a protest demonstration in front of the five-star hotel on Racecourse Road where the meeting is to take place.. “After a series of water privatisation programmes in Karnataka, the governments of India and the U.S. have now hatched a larger plan to convert all our water into a huge business opportunity,” he said. “The U.S. trade mission has selected Bangalore because a nexus between private companies and the Government has been active for almost a decade. Karnataka is being promoted as the water privatisation capital of the world,” he alleged
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