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The Narmada

Valley Scheme

India

North ofMumbai.


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Sardar Sarovar Project

Team Members

Jayesh Chedda 10

Vidya Ghule 20

Payal Mehta 30Nirmi Parikh 40

Arihant Shah 50

Manali Wyawhare 60


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Initial Budget(1986-87)Rs 6,400 cr

Expenditure so far Rs14,000 cr

Projected Total cost Rs24,000 cr

Cost of main canal Rs

4,000 cr

Villages submerged 14

Families displaced4,600

Irrigation for 1.91million hectares

Drinking water for8,200 villages, 135towns

Diversion canal into arid Gujurat

Not just a dam!


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Narmada facts

Project began in 1979.3,200 dams to be built along 1,200kmNarmada river.

Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra andRajasthan likely to benefit.

Opponents says it will displace 200,000people and damage ecology.

World Bank withdrew in 1993.

To be fully complete by 2025.


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PROBLEMS

The opponents of the dam counter that these benefits aregrossly exaggerated and would never accrue to the extentsuggested by the Govt.

Instead the project would displace more than 320,000 peopleand affect the livelihood of thousands of others.

Overall, due to related displacements by the canal system andother allied projects, at least 1 million people are expected tobe affected if the project is completed.

With no information forthcoming from the Govt. regarding thedetails of the project, the plans for the people to be affectedetc. the NBA declared its opposition to the entire projecttaking into consideration the scale of adverse impacts.


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ENVIRONMENTAL :

GOOD POINTSLow rainfall,unreliable monsoon,long dry season

Difficulties overcomeby irigation

Create new

ecosystems e.g . inreservoirs. Can beused economically.


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The reservoirs would, therefore, offer tremendousopportunities for fisheries development which would ultimatelybenefit the fishermen socially and economically in therespective areas.

Create new ecosystems e.g . in reservoirs. Can be usedeconomically

Large water

bodies shall becreated as aresult ofvarious damsbeingconstructed onthe riverNarmada & itstributaries.


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ENVIRONMENT:

BAD POINTS

Good land

andvegetationflooded anddestroyed

Drowningtree


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Reservoirs may silt up quickly


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Soils may become saline in desert areas :

i.e. new farming not sustainable

Of the total area to be

irrigated by Sardar Sarovar,only some 40 percent isclassified as "suitable" and"very suitable" for irrigation.As to the remaining 60

percent, there are more orless severe problemsrelated to high salt contentin the soil or in thegroundwater.


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Principal Opponents:

Medha Patkar Narmada Bachao Andolan1989

Arundhati Roy booker price winning author

Baba Amte renowned social worker


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Their principal ground of oppositionNon fulfillment of basic environmentalconditions

Insufficient studies & plans

Local inhabitants not being taken intocnfidence

Insufficient compensation


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Final Outcome

World bank backed out in 1995Supreme court gave stay order & directed thestates to complete rehabilitation process.

In 2000, Supreme court gave the final verdictof completion of construction according to itsoriginal scale.


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Our idea as a manager: To form a core committee & sub committees for

direct dialogue between local villagers and govt.agencies

To implement a comprehensive compensationscheme

To set into motion a full scale PR campaign:

To garner support at national & internationallevel To propagate the achievements till date To make local villagers fully aware of their

contribution in nations development


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Thank You

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