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	Narmada on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Narmada, sacred to Hindus, is said to have sprung from the body of the god Shiva ; a round-trip pilgrimage on foot along its entire length is highly esteemed.
		Narmada Be Dammed: Opposition to the gigantic dam project is
		Villagers shelter from the monsoon rain at an anti-Narmada dam rally.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Narmada.asp (594 words)

	Narmada Bachao Andolan, Medha Patkar, Baba Amte - India - 1991 Right Livelihood Award Recipient
		The Narmada is India's largest westward-flowing river and is of immense religious and cultural importance to the people living on its banks.
		It is also the subject of the largest river development project in the world, the Narmada Valley Project, which envisages the construction of thirty large and hundreds of small dams along its length.
		Victory for the NBA over the Narmada dams would be a great achievement for sustainability and a reprieve from homelessness and refugee status for several hundred thousand people.
	www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/narmada.htm (605 words)

	Large dams on the Narmada Valley
		The struggle of the people of the Narmada valley against large dams began when the people to be displaced by SSP began organizing in 1985-86.
		The valley of the river Narmada (which means one who endows with bliss) has been the seat of an uninterrupted flow of human civilization dating from pre-historic times.
		The river Narmada has supported a bewildering variety of people and diverse socio-cultural practices ranging from the relatively autonomous adivasi (tribal) settlements in the forests to non-tribal rural population.
	www.narmada.org /nvdp.dams (815 words)

	The Films of Ali Kazimi - Narmada - a Valley Rises - Longer Reviews
		Narmada is shot (Kazimi), edited (Steve Weslak) and scored (Mychael Danna) with a craft that makes it look like an expensive epic instead of the on~the-fly event that it was.
		From impersonal headlines and bare numbers to making up a crowd of demonstrators, the tribals of the Narmada Valley acquire an identity all their own; living, breathing persons who are willing to lay down their lives in their fight against the dam because it takes away from them everything they have.
		The Narmada agitation is not just one of ministers and activists wrangling in air-conditioned boardrooms or hunger strikes at the drop of a hat.
	www.socialdoc.net /kazimi/ali_html_pages2/3AK2Nar.html (823 words)

	Narmada River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Narmada or Nerbudda is a (A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) river in central (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India.
		The Narmada river is not only used for ((medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution) irrigation, but for (The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place) navigation.
		In sanctity the Narmada ranks only second to the Ganges among the rivers of India, and along its whole course are special places of (A journey to a sacred place) pilgrimage, including (Click link for more info and facts about Maheshwar) Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/narmada_river.htm (784 words)

	Narmada Dam Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Narmada Dam Project, known officially as the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), is a project involving the construction of a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Narmada River in India.
		The Narmada dam is India's most controversial dam project and its environmental impact and net costs and benefits are widely debated.
		The Narmada Dam has been the center of controversy and protest since the late 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narmada_Dam_Project (240 words)

	FRIENDS OF THE RIVER NARMADA: The Struggle Continues ...
		The construction of large dams on the River Narmada in central India and its impact on millions of people living in the river valley has become one of the most important social issues in contemporary India.
		The Friends of River Narmada is an international coalition of organisations and individuals (mostly of Indian descent).
		Narmada Waters are Rising: News from the Narmada Valley
	www.narmada.org (629 words)

	Under Siege in the Narmada Valley
		In the Narmada Valley, the government is seeking to wrench control over land and livelihood from its poorest citizens.
		Thirty large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams are planned on the Narmada River as she journeys through Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
		Following a writ petition by the Narmada Bachao Andolan in 1995, the Supreme Court of India limited the construction of the dam to 80.3 meters.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles5/Chatterji_Narmada.htm (920 words)

	New Internationalist: They only 'hold pen'.(dam on India's Narmada Ri... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although the Narmada is a mighty stream the traveller glimpses it only now and again.
		The Narmada is the defining element in the landscape, the lives of whose inhabitants it has ruled materially and spiritually for thousands of years.
		Electricity for Jabalpur is generated by its massive turbines, courtesy of a large dam - one of 30 planned and the nearest to the Narmada's source.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77827035&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1795 words)

	Learning from Narmada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Narmada projects, adherence to the Bank's guidelines at the outset could have avoided many of the negative consequences of environmental and RandR requirements, which should have been dealt with during project preparation and appraisal.
		The Narmada projects have had a far-reaching influence on the Bank's understanding of the difficulties of achieving lasting development, on its approaches to portfolio management, and on its openness to dialogue on policies and projects.
		In the Narmada projects, the civil works for the dam and irrigation system were the main concern of Bank staff in project design and appraisal, and continued to be so during the early stages of implementation.
	wbln0018.worldbank.org /oed/oeddoclib.nsf/3ff836dc39b23cef85256885007b956b/12a795722ea20f6e852567f5005d8933?OpenDocument (5021 words)

	Fwd: Satyagraha in Narmada Valley, Manoj Plakal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We reached the banks of Narmada on 14th evening in the pouring rain along with admiral (retd) Ramdas and his wife Lalita who were special guests for the inaugral function.
		After spending the night in Hapeswar temple, an ancient and important Siva temple on the Narmada which is at 106 mts height and will be under submergence, we went along with several people pouring in from different regions to the Satyagraha centres in Domkhedi, Maharashtra and Jalsindhi, MP.
		The entire Narmada valley today is a picture of lush green farms, and men and women working hard to clear the weeds.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~param/asha/info/733216.html (1291 words)

	World Rivers Review, June 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Indian seismologist Dr. Arun Singh told a government-commissioned review of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in 1995 of the risks of a "major earthquake" striking the Narmada Valley in the "near future." Singh recommended then that the seismicity of the Narmada Valley be re-evaluated in the context of the recent increase in tremors.
		The coalition, the Narmada Valley Struggle Coordination Committee, is demanding that the government appoint an independent panel of experts to review the issue of seismicity and high dams in the Narmada Valley and that work on all dams in the valley be stopped until the review is completed.
		Meanwhile, work on Sardar Sarovar, the most infamous dam on the Narmada River, remains suspended after the New Delhi Supreme Court on March 3 rejected an application from the project authorities for permission to raise the height of the dam from its current 63.5 meters (about half of the dam's final height).
	www.irn.org /pubs/wrr/9706/narmada.html (534 words)

	[Ornet] More on Narmada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada in Gujarat was resumed today after a break of about 18 months.
		However, he credited the completion of the Narmada canal and the bringing of its water to the region to the BJP Government.
		Though speaker after speaker spoke of the BJP's Bhageerath Prayatna in bringing Narmada water to the two districts in eight months, the Naramada water will only reach the region in a few days time - the five pumping stations along the sub-canal are yet to be completed.
	lists.cs.columbia.edu /pipermail/ornet/2002-May/004419.html (658 words)

	NARMADA DAM: People vs. Development - NI 336 - Keynote: The day of judgement
		The Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada movement – NBA) had petitioned the Court to halt the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada River.
		The Narmada story winds through the political, economic and cultural fabric of three Indian states (Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra) and up into the international stratosphere to the battle-lines against globalization.
		If the Supreme Court’s decision on Narmada is a license for the forced exclusion of millions of Indians from the common resource base, then something radical may well be unleashed.
	www.newint.org /issue336/keynote.htm (1886 words)

	Narmada Bachao Andolan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Narmada is the dividing line between Arya vart and Daksha vart.
		Narmada Sagar will submerge 91,000 hectares, of which 50,000 hectares is the rich forest of central India, the Khandwa range.
		Narmada Minister J.Narayan Vyas has written that SSP is not the lifeline, but the death noose of Sourashtra and Kutch.
	www.aidindia.org /publications/proceedings/india_1999/speaker11.htm (5586 words)

	prdomain: books: Narmada Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Narmada Dairy is a graphic and independent account of the sorry tale of the innumerable Narmada Dam oustees, who have been forced to take refuge in jungles.
		Unlike the conventional dairies which are used for storing phone numbers and engagements, the Narmada dairy is a cup full of woes about which locals and non- government observers both pour out their suppressed wrath.
		The Narmada Bachao Andolan activists claim that during a satyagraha in Manibeli, the police officer ordered his juniors to tear off a woman's clothes in public.
	www.prdomain.com /books/pr_narmada.htm (1778 words)

	The Films of Ali Kazimi - Narmada - a Valley Rises
		Steeped in legend and history, sacred to the Hindus, the Narmada and its fertile valley provide home and livelihood for the indigenous peoples, the Bhils and Bhilalas, who live and work upon its shores.
		Narmada: a Valley Rises follows Medha, Baba, and more than 6000 farmers and tribal people as they embark, Christmas Day 1990, on an epic 200-kilometre march from the state of Madhya Pradesh to the dam site in Gujarat.
		As the inhabitants of the valley demonstrate their willingness to die rather than see their land and way of life destroyed, the movement to save Narmada has become a symbol in the international struggle to place human rights and social justice at the forefront of developmental policy.
	www.socialdoc.net /kazimi/ali_html_pages2/1AK2Nar.html (604 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Development in the Narmada Valley: An Edifice to Injustice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Narmada river in its passage through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat, is the site of 30 large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams.
		The Narmada watershed is home to about 20 million peasants and adivasi people whose subsistence is critically linked to their land, forests and water.
		State sanctioned development in the Narmada Valley will leave the marginalised without the right to life and livelihood, resettled, at best, on lands unfit for cultivation, fleeing the present in squatter settlements and slums, scattered and nameless, with no past to remember or future to grasp.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /092002/dam.htm (866 words)

	Narmada Bachao Andolan
		Numerous local NGOs coalesced to form the Narmada Bachao Andolan in response to the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam along the Narmada River in the Indian state of Gujarat.
		The Narmada River is the largest westward flowing river in India and empties into the Indian Ocean.
		After the International Narmada Campaign Japanese symposium, thousands of letters condemning the project, forced the Japanese-based Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, a principle investor in the dam, to cease all support of the construction of Sardar Sarovar.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6027/Narmada.html (1037 words)

	NARMADA DAM: People vs. Development - NI 336 - Contents
		Pergau, Narmada, Ilisu – so much big dam controversy that a World Commission on Dams was set up to sort it out.
		People’s determined resistance to dams in the Narmada Valley is truly amazing – and it’s their voices the magazine is a platform for, not mine, not Lucy’s.
		What is happening in Narmada is a gross injustice against millions of people, perpetrated in the name of ‘development’.
	www.newint.org /issue336/contents.htm (487 words)

	Narmada diary
		The people had accepted the cash-compensation option for their land because they believed the dam could never be built, because according to legend, the Narmada cannot be stopped.
		From Rani Rupmati's palace in Mandu, on the edge of the plateau falling away to the checkerboard pattern of the fields of Nimad, the Narmada is a silver ribbon, glistening in the distance.
		It is said that Rupmati would not drink water till she caught a glimpse of the Narmada and with its bloating she would see it effortlessly.
	www.hinduonnet.com /folio/fo0107/01070360.htm (797 words)

	:::\| NCA \|:::: Narmada Control Authority ______________________________________________
		Utilizable quantum of waters of Narmada at Sardar Sarovar Dam on the basis of 75% dependability was assessed on 34537.44 Mcum (28 Maf).
		Narmada Sagar Dam to be taken up and completed by MP concurrently with or earlier than the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam.
		The concerned party State was required to submit to the Authority project report of Sardar Sarovar, Narmada Sagar, Omkareshwar and Maheshwar to enable the Authority to examine if any feature of the project are in conflict with the implementation of the orders of the NWDT.
	www.ncaindia.org /aboutus_nwdt.htm (333 words)

	State Repression in the Narmada Valley
		Villages on the Narmada River are frontlines in the struggle for cultural survival.
		Sardar Sarovar is the largest dam on the Narmada, one of 30 large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams planned on the river, whose watershed is home to about 20 million peasants and adivasis.
		Struggles over the shape of the Indian nation in the Narmada Valley, narrate the irrevocable depletion of the country's natural resource base and the brutalisation of the disenfranchised.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles7/Chatterji_Narmada-Repression.htm (1045 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Holy waters: a trip up the Narmada River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They were never consulted about the dams and the Narmada Bachao Andolan regards the government's "development" project in the valley as a form of "internal colonialism, a snatching of natural resources for urban societies." Remarkably, their struggle has remained nonviolent.
		In the summer of 2001, the village was the sight of the Narmada Bachao Andolan's annual Satyagraha campaign.
		A young Adivasi woman, Murildhar is also a Narmada Bachao Andolan activist and the movement was delighted that one of their own would be able to represent "the cause" in a local political forum.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_24_40/ai_n6015090 (1463 words)

	CHITTAROOPA PALIT - MONSOON RISINGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Narmada River itself flows westwards across Central India over a course of some 800 miles, rising in the Maikal hills, near Amarkantak, and cutting down between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges to reach the Arabian Sea at Baruch, 200 miles or so north of Mumbai.
		But though the Narmada movement started with protests around rehabilitation for the villagers affected by the Sardar Sarovar project, within three years it had become plain that they were facing a much greater problem.
		The Narmada Tribunal Award had specified that those displaced by the dams should be recompensed with land of equal extent and quality, preferably in the newly irrigated area—the command zone—before any submergence took place.
	www.newleftreview.org /NLR25504.shtml (7695 words)

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