Movement Groups


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Movement Groups

Movement Groups: The groups involved with movements include a very wide variety. Most of the movements are issue-specific movements that seek to achieve a single objective within a limited time frame. Other movements are more general or generic that seek to achieve a broad goal in long-term.

Example of Movements with Single-issue and Short Term Goal: The Narmada Bachao Andolan also started with the specific issues of the people displaced by the creation Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. Its objective was to stop the dam from being constructed. But gradually, it became wider movement that questioned all such big dams. Movements of this kind have a clear leadership and some organisations, but their actual life is usually short.

Examples of Movements with More than One Issue and Long-term Goal: The Environmental Movement and the Women's Movement are the examples of such movements. The is no single organisation that controls or guides such movements. All these movements take separate organisations, independent leadership and o different views on policy related but they all have a broad objective and a similar approach. Sometimes these broad movements have a loose umbrella organisation as well like NAPM. National Alliance for Peoples' Movements (NAPM) is an organisation of organisations. Various movement groups struggling a specific issues organisation which coordinates the activities of a large number of peoples' movements in our country.

#NAPM :- It is an organisation of Organisations , which stands for National Alliance for people's Movements . 

 
 


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