Madhya Pradesh will get 18.25 Million Acre Feet (MAF) water from Narmada River, which is lifeline of Madhya Pradesh. An important programme of construction of 29 big, 135 medium and 3 thousand small dams is being implemented to utilize the water for irrigation purposes. So far, 19 medium and one thousand small dams have been constructed.

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Bharuch: The tourism department with a view to develop tourism infrastructure projects had recently launched a Multiple Tourism Project (MTP) in the state to invite investors but it missed out on Narmada district in south Gujarat.
Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada district earned over Rs 50 lakhs in 2009 following the visit of 4.5 lakh tourists to the site.
The distric

The SSP on the Narmada River, arguably the lifeline of the State of Gujarat, has always been in the limelight for one reason or another. Now, the project has got drawn into a new controversy. Farmers in the SSP command area have stolidly resisted the idea of giving up any land for the construction of the distribution system.

AHMEDABAD: Two IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) students may have the solution to make the National River Linking Project (NRLP) viable.

Multi directional strategic approach is being laid down to utilise Narmada water , allocated to Madhya Pradesh. To provide irrigation facilities to the farmer of the state by completing major Narmada valley projects has been the priority of the state govt. This was informed by the Vice Chairman of the NVDA Mr. O.P.Rawat to the group of farmers of Barwani dist. who came to meet him in Indore.

GANDHINAGAR: In a major step towards putting the Kalpasar project on fast track, the Gujarat government last week commissioned a bathymetric and geotechnical study of the entire oceanic space in order to ascertain its different layers, including fault-lines.

The study, to be completed by January 2012, will closely study tidal currents and the type of sediments found in the base and how they wou

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Dhadgaon (Maharashtra): Calling for a review of resettlement sites for the people affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam and of the irrigation project itself, Medha Patkar, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) said, there were as many as 40,000 families still in the submergence area, waiting to be resettled.

Dhadgaon/Bhadal:

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