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Sardar Sarovar Project: The War of Attrition [1]

The Sardar Sarovar Dam reached a height of 121.92 m in 2006 and at this height the dam has enough water to generate most of the promised benefits - irrigation, drinking water, and electricity. However, currently only 30% of the targeted villages receive regular water supplies, less than 20% of the canal network has been constructed and power generation remains well below the generation capacity reached. Even as the dam construction nears completion, rehabilitation of several thousand families is poor or incomplete. This, for a project that has had clearly laid out legal mandates to alleviate human and environmental costs, and has been under continuous public scrutiny and Supreme Court monitoring.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2010
Himanshu Upadhyaya [2], S Parasuraman [3], Gomathy Balasubramanian [4]
Economic and Political Weekly [5]
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Tags:
Land Acquisition [6], Water Distribution [7], Rural Water Supply [8], Dams/ Irrigation [9], Narmada Valley Project [10], Hydroelectricity [11], Displacement [12], Water Disputes [13], Rehabilitation [14], Supreme Court [15], Gujarat [16], Madhya Pradesh [17], Maharashtra [18], Rajasthan [19]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/himanshu-upadhyaya
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/s-parasuraman
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/gomathy-balasubramanian
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-acquisition
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-distribution
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-water-supply
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dams-irrigation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/narmada-valley-project
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-disputes
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maharashtra
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rajasthan