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	Narmada Dam Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Narmada Dam Project, is a project involving the construction of a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Narmada River in India.Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is the largest multipurpose project in it.
		The project was first conceived of in the 1940s by the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
		The Narmada dam is India's most controversial dam project and its environmental impact and net costs and benefits are widely debated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narmada_Dam (1076 words)

	ARUNDHATI ROY'S ARTICLE : THE GREATER COMMON GOOD
		This is the genesis of the Maheshwar Dam.
		That was the inauguration of the earliest avatar of the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
		The purpose of a dam, an irrigation dam, is to store monsoon water in its reservoir and then use it judiciously for the rest of the year, distributing it across dry land through a system of canals.
	www.narmada.org /gcg/gcg.html (15445 words)

	India - MSN Encarta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Narmada River flows southwest between the Vindhya Range and an associated plateau on the north, and the Sātpura Range on the south.
		A series of large dams are being constructed on the river as part of a massive development scheme to increase irrigation of the basin.
		One of the largest dams of the project, the Sardar Sarovar Dam, was designed to divert large amounts of water to an irrigation canal through the state of Gujarāt.
	encarta.msn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia_761557562/India.html (2137 words)

	NewsletterIII
		This project has been proven over and over again to be unable to fulfill any of the promises the government claimed for it; yet the government goes ahead with the project.
		In the case of the Narmada, half a million people, the fish of the river, wildlife (including the endangered wild ass) and the rural /tribal people along the river will be denied their water, and sugarcane magnates will get the water.
		Two, the Narmada Dam Project is an excellent example of why we should be careful of our water and electricity consumption: for if we don't, we will destroy entire rivers ecosystems and the livelihoods of farmers and fishermen that depend on them.
	www.thimmakka.org /Newsletters/newsletteriii.html (4872 words)

	India: Excessive use of force against peaceful Narmada demonstrators - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The demonstrators were affiliated to Narmada Bachao Andolan, an environmental social movement, which has campaigned for the last two decades against the social and environmental consequences of large scale dams which have been developed as part of the Narmada River Valley Development plan.
		Narmada is the fifth largest river in India and flows west over a length of 1,312 km before draining into the Gulf of Cambay in Gujarat.
		The Narmada River Valley Development plan is a twenty year multipurpose power and irrigation project, consisting of 30 dams including two large scale dams, which has been implemented by the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engASA200112006?open&of=eng-352 (530 words)

	Sardar Sarovar Project Gujarat, Narmada Dam Project Gujarat, Narmada River Project - supportnarmadadam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Similarly the degradation of environment and onslaught on ecology of arid regions due to advancement of desert, salinity ingress, loss of green cover and biotic life etc. have to be considered against the disturbance in ecology and environment of submerging areas.
		Suggestions like water harnessing, small dams, watershed development etc. often flaunted by anti dam activists which may look deceptively simple, become totally irrelevant and grossly inadequate to meet such situations and for such arid areas for which transfer of water from surplus regions can only provide a real and lasting remedy.
		Sardar Sarovar Project is essentially a vehicle for taking plentiful waters of Narmada basin which are to-day flowing down the sea, to the water starved regions of Saurashtra, Kachchh, North Gujarat and Rajasthan.
	www.supportnarmadadam.org /sardar-sarovar-valley-project-gujarat.htm (1884 words)

	Medha Patkar leads candlelight march against Narmada Dam project
		Patkar, who has been leading the campaign against the dam project for over a decade, said construction for the 11-meter raising in the dam's height has already begun without any clear resettlement of many more villages that will now be flooded.
		Work on the dam is continuing and the State Ministers have refused to stop the work and these people are working towards sacrificing their farmers and labours.
		Environmentalists have over the years fiercely opposed the Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada, saying the fallout of displacing millions by the project far out-weights the benefits flowing from the dam.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060327/289733.html (333 words)

	Narmada River
		The Narmada or Nerbudda is a river in central India.
		The Supreme Court in 1999 declared that the Dam should be completed and it slammed the Narmada Bachao Andolao for opposing the construction of the dam.
		In sanctity the Narmada ranks only second to the Ganges among the rivers of India, and along its whole course are special places of pilgrimage, including Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/na/narmada_river.html (439 words)

	International Campaigns: India - Human Rights - Sierra Club
		The Narmada Valley Development Project, the single largest river development scheme in India and one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world, will displace an estimated 1.5 million people from their land in three states (Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh).
		Damming the Narmada River is likely to degrade the fertile agricultural soils due to continuous irrigation (rather the seasonal irrigation which is dependent on the monsoon), and salinization, making the soil toxic to many plant species.
		Government authorities must respect the right to freedom of expression and association of those affected and the dam construction workers, and ensure that their civil and political rights are not violated and they are not detained and subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
	www.sierraclub.org /human-rights/India/index.asp (1028 words)

	Narmada Dam Project - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Local protests taking the form of a genuine peoples movement, known as the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) have been led by Medha Patkar.
		Narmada Dam protests: Villagers stay put, defying government officials
		Sardar sarovar nigam Ltd., govenment authority building the dam and all deatils of the dam
	www.the-free-web-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Narmada_Dam_Controversy (221 words)

	Narmada dam work to resume from tomorrow
		Following the onset of monsoon in the region, on July 18, the project authorities had stopped construction work at all the 29 blocks of the dam after raising their heights to a uniform 119 metres.
		According to SSNNL sources, the water level in the dam, which had set a record by overflowing at 127.48 metres in the second week of August, had now receded to 117.76 metres today as against the present dam height of 119 metres.
		Though the authorities had earlier decided to resume work by the end of October, the date was advanced in view of the retreating monsoon and gradual decrease in the water level in the Narmada dam as well as in that of the Indira Sardar Project in Madhya Pradesh.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060930/466687.html (267 words)

	Economy and Society » Blog Archive » The Narmada Dam Project - India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is the people’s movement that mobilised itself against this development in the mid- and late-1980s.
	www.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch /blog/archives/217 (543 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The report notes that big dams have largely failed to provide as much electricity or water as predicted, but have regularly incurred huge cost-overruns, have benefited the well- off, disrupted the lives of indigenous communities and caused the loss of natural resources.
		WCD recommends that no big dam should be built without the agreement of the affected people, and the priority should be to maximise existing water and energy systems before embarking on new projects.
		Allegations of corruption have dogged the Bujugali dam project - it was not subject to competitive bidding, it will be built within a few miles of two other dams, and the cumulative impacts on the river are unknown.
	www.dams.org /news_events/media119.htm (1170 words)

	The Hindu : NGOs resent President's comments on Narmada project
		But the President ``by his actions in granting an audience to the Narmada Bachao Andolan leaders and by his utterances'' was showing ``definite bias'' against the dam project for the which the people in the drought-hit areas in the two States had been awaiting anxiously for the last so many years.
		Krishnaprasad Patel, the convenor of the Narmada Jal-Rakshak Sangh formed by the voluntary organisations of the two States, said there was an apprehension in the minds of the people that the President might ``misuse'' his extra-ordinary powers under Schedule 5 of the Constitution to stall the dam project ``in the interest of tribals.''
		Narayanan apparently had been ``misled'' by the dam critics both about the number of tribals to be affected by the project and their future once the dam was constructed.
	www.hindu.com /2000/12/16/stories/0216000u.htm (424 words)

	India’s Greatest Planned Environmental Disaster: The Narmada Valley Dam Projects
		The Narmada Valley Development Project is the single largest river development scheme in India.
		Damming the Narmada River will degrade the fertile agricultural soils due to continuous irrigation (rather the seasonal irrigation which is dependent on the monsoon), and salinization, making the soil toxic to many plant species.
		The demonstrations, protests, rallies, hunger strikes, blockades, and written representations by Narmada Bachao Andolan have all made an impact on the direction of the movement to stop the building of large and small dams along the Narmada.
	www.umich.edu /~snre492/Jones/narmada.html (2594 words)

	H-Environment Discussion Network
		This enormous project is estimated to not only displace up to a million people, but threatens to redistribute land, water, and energy for millions more.
		Roy explains that her motivation for protesting the vast dam project was a result of having a developed a relationship with the river when she was young girl, when she spent hours on it banks.
		Indeed, the dam project's intended purpose was never met: it irrigated only 5 percent of the land it was supposed to irrigate and benefited only corporate sugar cane growers.
	www.h-net.org /~environ/films/damage.html (918 words)

	Narmada River Dams, India
		The project is expected to generate only 50 MW (of 1450 MW planned) after seasonal water flow and power consumption for pumping water are accounted for.
		Electricity generated by the dam is projected to cost four to five times more than current electricity produced by Madhya Pradesh state.
		The WCD states For the proposed project to be part of a preferred development plan the acceptance of the project affected peopleshould be obtained.
	www.irn.org /wcd/narmada.shtml (1034 words)

	Supreme Court Judgments – Sardar Sarovar Project, Narmada Dam, Narmada River Project - supportnarmadadam
		The permission to raise the dam height beyond 90 meters will be given by the Narmada Control Authority, from time to time, after it obtains the above-mentoined clearances from the Relief and Rehabilitation Sub-group and the Environment Sub-group.
		Even though there has been substantial compliance with the conditions imposed under the environment clearance the NCA and the Environment Sub-group will continue to monitor and ensure that all steps are taken not only to protect but to restore and improve the environment.
		The Grievances Redressal Authorities will be at liberty, in case the need arises, to issue appropriate directions to the respective States for due implementation of the R and R programmes and in case of non-implementation of its directions, the GRAs will be at liberty to approach the Review Committee for appropriate orders.
	www.supportnarmadadam.org /narmada-project-supreme-court-judgment.htm (548 words)

	APE - Animals, People and the Environment: Narmada Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite enormous protests at the dam construction project on the Narmada River in India, President Clinton's recent five-day visit to India has consolidated plans for the completion of the project.
		One of a series of dams to be constructed on the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh in central India, the partially completed Maheshwar Dam will make homeless nearly 40,000 farmers and fishermen in 61 villages.
		The protestors are concerned that no solid plans have been made to relocate those made homeless by the project, a project that they feel is worthless anyway because the slow-flowing river will only generate power effectively for four months of the year.
	www.ivu.org /ape/news/indiandams (308 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).
		This year, it will be 20 years since the Narmada Bachao Andolan started questioning, organizing and mobilizing resistance against destruction of life and livelihood in the Narmada river valley.
	www.narmada.org (784 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Dam protester's health gets worse
		Ms Patkar and supporters are protesting in Delhi against the construction of a dam on the Narmada river.
		The dam is essential for drought-prone areas in the states of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, officials say.
		Activists are angry at a recent decision to raise the height of the dam from 110 to 121 metres.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4876110.stm (399 words)

	de.indymedia.org \| Inhabitants of Narmada Valley Fighting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Sardar Sarovar Dam on the lower Narmada River is just one of 30 projected large dams of India`s Narmada mega-dam project, an area
		In May 2003, three Indian federal states had given clearance to increase the height of the dam to 100 meters, which caused the submergence of several villages and devastation of standing crops, after monsoon rains started at the end of July.
		The clearance was given inspite of a legally binding Supreme Court Order and the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal Award, which had stipulated the previous resettlement of all project-affected persons.
	de.indymedia.org /2003/08/60225.shtml (617 words)

	Arundhati Roy
		In May 1999, in the two Indian news magazines 'Outlook' and 'Frontline', Arundhati Roy published a lengthy political commentary on the Narmada dam project, its history and context, and its impact on the people it is displacing.
		That's why I went to the Narmada valley." There, she found "a civilisation older than Hinduism, slated - sanctioned (by the highest court in the land) - to be drowned this monsoon when the waters of the Sardar Sarovar reservoir will rise to submerge it.
		The remainder of the article is her attempt to support the small heroes in the Narmada valley - the people desperate to defend their way of life against yet another enormous monster of a good-intentioned social project which appears destined to fail, like so many others before it.
	website.lineone.net /~jon.simmons/roy/tgost7c.htm (1015 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Hunger strikers protesting Indian dam vow to continue despite govt promises
		Medha Patkar, who has been leading a struggle for two decades on behalf of villagers displaced by the Narmada River dam project, has refused to end her hunger strike, saying the government has failed to reassure around 35,000 people that they will be fairly compensated and resettled once their houses are submerged.
		Patkar’s hunger strike, which began March 29, was prompted by a decision to raise the height of one of the main dams from 110 meters (360 feet) to 121 meters (396 feet).
		The dam project has sparked a raging debate among policy planners and social and environmental activists about the benefits of large dams and whether powerless farmers can be displaced for the sake of development.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/April/subcontinent_April175.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= (490 words)

	Spanner Films : Drowned Out : Jay Narayan Vyas 1
		This is one of the projects in a country where we ca we are proud saying that we have done the most moral rehabilitation work.
		It is because of the dams and the irrigation facilities that came from the dams, that today, despite we are two and half times the population, we are able to export and we can further produce for ourselves.
		Here is a project that has shown not only to the country, but to the world, what could be an ideal rehabilitation process, something that has not been done anywhere in the last fifty years.
	www.spannerfilms.net /?lid=842&tmpl=spfdocprint (5447 words)

	Dam row: Panel trip off, yet no respite for Keshubhai - [September 10,1998] - The Hindustan Times
		The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has averted an imminent confrontation with the Gujarat Government by cancelling its proposed visit to the Narmada dam site on Sept. 17.
		The delegations is also likely to impress upon the Centre not to allow the WCD to hold its public hearings even in Bhopal as it may jeopardise the case of the dam currently under litigation in the Supreme Court.
		The BJP's planned demonstrations and possible arrest of the WCD team, as threatened by the Chief Minister, on their visit here on Sept. 17 would have definitely given the State Government sufficient mileage to negate the impact of the bandh on the next day, at least partially.
	www.narmada.org /archive/ht/ht.100998.detsta08.htm (327 words)

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