NEW DELHI (IPS) - Anti-big dam activists are livid that authorities are still trying to evade responsibility a week after at least 65 people drowned in waters suddenly released from the Indira Sagar dam in the Narmada Valley of central India.

The victims, mostly Hindu pilgrims who had congregated on Apr. 7 for a customary new moon, bathing ritual at Dharaji village in the Dewas district on the Narmada River about 25 kilometers downstream from the dam, were swept away to their deaths.