Hundreds of people from many places in India joined a protest at Indore Station on July 30 under the banner ‘Rally for the Valley’, in support of 45,000 families whose homes are on the verge of being submerged due to a river dam.

In 2014, the government of Gujarat state, in western India, permitted the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River to be increased by 17 metres (from 122 to 139 metres), and now the government has taken steps to fill the dam to its full reservoir level.