Alok Agarwal, 43, was destined for the soft life of an IIT boy. Instead, he courted arrests and broken bones to stop the Maheshwar dam-------------

Ahmedabad: With over 74 per cent of the canal networking yet to be completed, 27 towns and 3,962 villages still without water, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Siddharth Patel said that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has failed to give required attention to the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project.

Rajiv Shah | TNN

Gandhinagar: Clear indications have emerged that the controversial issue of raising Narmada dam height from 121.92 m to full reservoir level of 138.68 m by constructing pillars and putting up radial gates may once again get bogged down in another environmental tangle between the Centre and state.

Madhya Pradesh has no land to rehabilitate the dam oustees. Instead, the convoluted rules of the relief package create victims for conmen

RANCHOR BHAI, dam oustee framed in a land scam

IT WAS ONLY after spending a month in jail that Ranchor Bhai discovered why he was there.

Himanshu Kaushik, TNN 20 July 2009, 03:35am IST
GANDHINAGAR: The wait for Narmada water has got longer for thousands of villages in Gujarat with the construction of branch, sub-branch and distribution canals further being delayed.

It will be the first of its kind irrigation structure in the state, putting a high challenge before modern Civil Engineering technology with very high risk factor. This inter basin tunnel structure is designed to carry 153 cubic metre of water per second to 12 km long underground passage.

75% of the canal network is yet to be built.

The Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, often described as the lifeline of Gujarat, has started proving to be a mirage than reality to the farmers of the state who have been eagerly waiting for water from the project for decades.

Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: Narmada Bachao Andolan activists met the Madhya Pradesh Governor, Balram Jakhar, here on Monday and apprised him of the concerns of the dam-affected tribal population of five villages in Dewas district.

Irrigation revolution is at the doorsteps of Narmada Valley since the present irrigation potential of 2.24 lakh hectare from Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) projects will be multiplied by five times within the next five years. The NVDA has set to make it 10.46 lakh hectare by the year 2015.