First the dams. Then the damned canals

BHILALA TRIBALS often assemble next to what used to be their village, Atursumba of Khargaon district in southeast Madhya Pradesh. Dwarfing them is a 100-feet-wide canal laid high above the ground.

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Publication Date: 
12/03/2011
Baba Umar
Tehelka (New Delhi)
Tags:
Narmada, Madhya Pradesh, Khargone, Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar, Dams, Narmada Valley, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Narmada Bachao Andolan, High Court, Farmers, Compensation, Canal Irrigation