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	Narmada River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sardar Sarovar Project was first conceived in the 1940s by India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, but the project did not begin to become a reality until 1979.
		The goal of the project is to create around 3200 small, medium and large dams along the length of the river, with the Sardar Sarovar dam being the largest.
		Proponents of the dam project argue that the dam will provide hydroelectric power to the entire region, as well as helping to irrigate the arid regions of Gujurat, namely north Gujurat, Saurashtra, and Kutch (also sometimes spelled Kachchh).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Narmada_River (1040 words)

	THE SARDAR SAROVAR DAM
		Amongst the 30 large dams planned for the Narmada, the Sardar Sarovar dam is the largest.
		Throughout 1990-91, with a series of dharnas (sit-in's), non-violent protests (satyagraha) the NBA highlighted the plight of the oustees and the fundamentally flawed nature of the project.
		Letter sent by the Habitat International Coalition to the Prime Minister of India regarding the situation in the SSP and Maan dam projects based on a fact-f inding team sent by HIC in September to the valley after the monsoons.
	www.narmada.org /sardarsarovar.html (1605 words)

	proXsa: SARDAR SAROVAR PROJECT OVERVIEW
		The Sardar Sarovar Dam is on the Narmada River in Gujarat state, 170 kilometres (106 miles) upstream from where the river flows into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea.
		SSP's backers claim the project will irrigate a 'command area' of 1.8 million hectares (4.45m acres) in Gujarat and 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) in Rajasthan; have an installed power generation capacity of 1450 megawatts; provide domestic water to over 2.35 million people in 8235 villages and 135 towns in Gujarat; and prevent flooding downstream.
		The power from SSP is to be generated from a 1200 MW powerhouse at the dam and a 250 MW powerhouse at the head of the canal.
	www.proxsa.org /economy/ecology/overv.html (5107 words)

	Sardar Sarovar Project Gujarat, Narmada Dam Project Gujarat, Narmada River Project - supportnarmadadam
		The Sardar Sarovar Project, or any other large water resources project for that matter, has to be viewed in this national perspective.
		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.
		In Sardar Sarovar Project we have undertaken this task of managing our water resources for National interest - our food security, energy security and upgrading the quality of life - including that of people who would be required to shift from submergence areas.
	www.supportnarmadadam.org /sardar-sarovar-valley-project-gujarat.htm (1884 words)

	Spotlight, being Eco friendly, Eco cosmetics, Nature & culture, nature and culture. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The centerpiece of the scheme is to be the Sardar Sarovar Dam, stretching 4000 feet across the river and rising to the height of a 45-storey building.
		For e.g- Nal Sarovar Sanctuary in Gujarat is home to hundreds of varieties of birds and animals, the most important one being the Blackbuck and the Wild Ass.
		One potentially serious problem faced by every irrigation project is waterlogging of the command area (the area irrigated by the project), which can render the land useless because of excess water in the soil.
	www.womenexcel.com /ecowatch/sardarsarovar.htm (1167 words)

	Express Focus -- SARDAR SAROVAR PROJECT -- by Indian Express
		The day the Supreme Court cleared the cobwebs around the multi-crore Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) and breathed new life to a project conceived by Sardar Patel in 1946 will long be remembered years after the celebrations and mourning has faded away.
		The SSP, India’s third highest concrete dam of 163 metres with the longest conceived main canal in the world, is to irrigate 17.93 lakh hectares covering 3,360 villages of 62 talukas and 14 districts in Gujarat.
		The project promises to supply potable drinking water to 8,215 villages and 135 towns in arid areas of Saurashtra, Kutch and North Gujarat.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20001103/focus11.htm (956 words)

	Latitudes Volume 5 -- Narmada Valley Development Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Projects were taken up in a great frenzy, and each state department tried to out-do the others by trying to get as many projects as possible approved by the (central) authorities.
		This is the terminal project of the river basin located 148 km upstream from the Gulf of Cambay on the border of the state of Maharashtra, with the majority of the submergence zone falling in Madhya Pradesh.
		Lowering the SSP from 137 m to 128 m would spare 90 percent of the population from displacement and 80 percent of the cultivable land while still maintaining the live storage volume necessary to supply the canal; the only drawback is the loss of the short-term river-bed power capacity.
	ssmu.mcgill.ca /journals/latitudes/5dam.htm (5848 words)

	Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE), Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This case study focuses on the Sardar Sarovar dam, the largest of all the constructed dams, and its effects on the ecosystem and the inhabitants of the region.
		However, the focus of this case study is on the Sardar Sarovar Dam, the largest of all of the dams in India, which is located on the Narmada River and feeding into the bottom of the Narmada Main Canal.
		Further, the Supreme Court granted the SSP contractors the right to proceed to elevate the height of the dam to the originally planned height of 138 meters, in five meter increments, only once the government demonstrated that there was a relocation policy in effect.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/narmada.htm (3012 words)

	Government of Gujarat (NRI Division) helps to non resident gujarati who origin in gujarat and resides anywhere in the ...
		It was the dream of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, the Iron Man of India, to harness the waters of the Narmada River to bring prosperity to the people of the Western Region.
		Sardar Sarovar Project is an Inter-State Multi Purpose project of National importance.
		Subsequent to the Award of the Tribunal, the project proposal was examined in detail and given the necessary clearance by the Planning Commission of the Govenment of India from the investment point of view, and by the Ministry of Environment and Forests from the Environment Protection angle.
	www.nri-gujarat.com /sardar.htm (700 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		By focusing on the case of 'water-scarce' Kutch and its relationship with the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project, this paper argues that state discourses and programmes essentialise scarcity as a natural phenomenon that enables the political legitimisation of large dams.
		In short, the project of providing water from the SSP to Kutch continues to be embryonic and promises to be a protracted process.
		Projects such as the SSP are evoked as the only solution to set right what nature has ostensibly disturbed.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2003&leaf=11&filename=6557&filetype=html (7949 words)

	Narmada Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sardar Sarovar Project is a multipurpose Interstate Project of 4 States (Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan) being implemented by Govt.
		The Project comprises construction of a 163 M,, high and 1200M.
		Gujarat will be required to resettle 14124 families of Madhya Pradesh in the command area of the project in Gujarat.
	www.nvda.nic.in /sardarsarovar.htm (325 words)

	The Hindu : National : Sardar Sarovar Project — dam minus drinking water
		It was found during the audit that expenditure on the drinking water supply is being booked not on the balance sheets of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited, but on the balance sheets of the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Gujarat Drinking Water Infrastructure Limited.
		The Saurashtra Pipeline Project was first brought to the drawing board in 1996 with a master plan that talked about augmenting the Mahi Canal-based Water Supply Schemes by supplying 211 MLD (million litres a day) water from Narmada Canals to 1860 severely affected villages of Ahmedabad, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts.
		Similarly a second route was based on the Maliya Branch Canal of the Sardar Sarovar project with a distribution network through 869 km-long pipelines to supply 500 MLD water to 1342 villages/ towns in Jamnagar, Kachch and Rajkot districts.
	www.hindu.com /2006/04/16/stories/2006041604541000.htm (860 words)

	[sacw] SACW #2 (14 June 01) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is sure that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) would prove to be another Enron for the state and government has to call a halt and reviewthe project before it is too late.
		However, the dam had to be stopped at 9= 0 meters as the Resettlement sub-group and Environment sub-group of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) have refused the permission for the increas= e in the further height of the dam due to the failure to complete the resettlement and the non-fulfillment of the conditions.
		Thus, it is estimated that Sardar Sarovar Project may contribute about 110 MW in the beginning to 20 MW in the end firm power for Maharashtra.
	bridget.jatol.com /pipermail/sacw_insaf.net/2001/001138.html (6088 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Dilip D'Souza on the Sardar Sarovar Project
		Especially as the sun crept lower in the sky, as the shadows grew longer, as the colours in the sky reflected more and more vibrantly in the river, as you slipped down the slope to bathe in the Narmada, the loveliness of this tiny hamlet hit you like a fist in the stomach.
		The history of the dam projects on the Narmada is filled with instances like these two.
		Because it is hard for anyone to take more than a cursory look at the Sardar Sarovar project and not see the huge gap between claims and reality.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/sep/23dilip.htm (1290 words)

	BACKGROUND TO THE SARDAR SAROVAR PROJECT
		According to the integrated Narmada Valley Develpment programme, the Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya Pradesh and the downstream Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat must both be completed together.
		But the Gujarat government in particular beginning from the Chief Ministership of the late Chimanbhai Patel took the stance that Sardar Sarovar Project is the lifeline of Gujarat and bulldozing all objections went ahead with the project.
		Taking into consideration the negative environmental and social impacts of these mega projects and the fact that there is no possibility of recovering the thousands of crores of rupees invested in them, many experts and even parliamentary Public Accounts Committees have repeatedly asked for a moratorium on mega dams.
	www.narmada.org /sardar-sarovar/background.html (905 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The project is still plagued by rehabilitation issues and skewed priorities of water distribution.
		The drinking water project was to serve 8,215 villages and 135 towns in Gujarat.
		The Sardar Sarovar project was to irrigate 17.93 lakh hectares, covering 3,112 villages in 15 districts.
	www.the-week.com /25dec11/statescan_article1.htm (896 words)

	CorpWatch : Save The Narmada, Save Humanity!
		It is sure that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) would prove to be another Enron for the state and government has to call a halt and review the project before it is too late.
		It is now proved that the project is not a solution for the drought stricken areas and the Sardar Sarovar Project water is not meant for the Saurashtra and Kutch.
		The project would prove to be a liability for the state government as in the case of Enron Power Project.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=431 (1383 words)

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		A: No. The facts are as follows: The SSP was never designed to provide drinking water to the villages of this region.
		The SSP depends on regulated releases of water from the proposed Narmada Sagar dam upstream in Madhya Pradesh (MP).
		The SSP arbitrarily assumes an irrigation efficiency of 60%, when the highest efficiency achieved in India is around 40%.
	www.cse.iitb.ac.in /~sudeep/water/whopayswhoprofits.txt (1203 words)

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		Sardar Sarovar Project-Status of Branch Canals offtaking from Saurashtra Branch Canal
		Sardar Sarovar Dam - Placement of Mass Concrete by largest cable cranes in the world.
		Sardar Sarovar Project- Mechanised Paver for lining the Main, Branch Canals and Distributaries used for the first time for such a large scale work in our Country.
	www.sardarsarovardam.org /press.htm (632 words)

	Rising concerns
		The Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), which involves the construction of the largest of the dams, the Sardar Sarovar dam, is being implemented by the governments of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
		The resettlement patterns and policies pronounced by the Tribunal for people affected by the SSP are seen as being progressive in comparison to those adopted in the case of other development projects, where the resettlement was largely cash-oriented.
		While the Bargi project has displaced 1,14,000 families of 162 villages and formed a submergence area of 26,797 ha, the Maheshwar project has displaced 35,000 families in 61 villages, and created a submergence area of 5,697 ha.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2012/stories/20030620002404100.htm (2505 words)

	RESUMPTION OF WORK ON SARDAR SAROVAR DAM - Indlaw News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Construction work of Sardar Sarovar Project was started on 24th April, 1987 at the approved estimated cost of Rs.
		The main reason for high cost escalation of the project is delay in completion of the project due to stay granted in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 319/94 filed against construction of the project by the Supreme Court of India and escalation in cost of construction.
		However, completion of the project is dependent on disposal of Writ Petition pending before the Supreme Court, the availability of funds and pari-passu implementation of Resettlement and Rehabilitation measures of Project-Affected Families by the party-States as per the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) Award.
	www.indlaw.com /news99-0858 (378 words)

	Spanner Films : reviews : McLibel Filmmaker Jams the Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		As with subsequent big dam projects in the West, the economic benefits that were trumpeted to the electrified rooftops, eclipsed the plight of the displaced peoples, often indigenous, or the prime farmland, forests, and ecosystems that would be ruined in the process.
		Drowned Out is a jam-packed DVD documentary about one such project, the huge Sardar Sarovar dam project in India and the plight of the adivasis, indigenous tribal farmers, whose ancestral lands have become submerged.
		Armstrong gives ample space to the official explanation of why the Sardar Sarovar, the keystone in a staircase of 3000 dams, must be built.
	www.spannerfilms.net /?lid=1670&tmpl=spfdocprint (1043 words)

	Narmada River Dams, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In light of this, the WCD recommends that the gestation period in delivering benefits, the scale of adverse impacts, and costs should all be considered in evaluating different options, while at the same time not jeopardizing or delaying alternatives that can deliver benefits within the short–term.
		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.
		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)

	The World Bank and India : Chapter 13
		While the basic parameters of the project had been decided by the NWDT (Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal), it was clear that it is not possible for India to go ahead with such a gigantic project without help from the World Bank.
		And when the project could not go ahead without the credibility and finance brought to it by the Bank, it was in no way accountable to anybody—neither the Government, nor the affected people.
		The Bank had been a party to the project for seven long years, and was equally responsible for the destruction that had already taken place and that was to follow.
	www.ieo.org /world-c13-p2.html (2720 words)

	proXsa: India Alert's Report on Sardar Sarovar Project
		The Sardar Sarovar Dam, the centerpiece of the Narmada Valley Development Project, is the latest and largest example of such efforts.
		One potentially serious problem faced by every irrigation project is water-logging of the command area (the area irrigated by the project), which can render the land useless because of excess water in the soil.
		The report says that the WB always placed the "approval of the project over compliance with the bank policy", and has willfully accepted vague assurances and promises as adequate and as recently as this year made attempts "to soften...criticism" and refrain from threatening "suspension of the loan".
	www.proxsa.org /economy/ecology/indalert.html (6035 words)

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		Instead, it has provided a weapon in the hands of the powerholders to indiscriminately displace the project affected people and crush their rights.
		The Supreme Court in its majority judgement in Narmada Bachao Andolan's Public Interest Litigation against the SSP, on Wednesday (18th October) has not taken cognisance of the serious issues regarding the incomplete studies, non-fulfillment of environment and other conditions which is were put before the court.
		The judgment will become a tool in the hands of those planners, lenders and investors who are for centralised, gigantic projects at the cost of common people and nature.
	zena.secureforum.com /Znet/southasia/supreme.htm (737 words)

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