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After the February 2017 decision of the Supreme Court that allowed cash compensation to the dam-affected people, rather than compensation in land – a decision made against the will of the Narmada ...
Subject: THE NARMADA RIVER VALLEY – IMMINENT DISASTER-IN-THE-MAKING. Hon’ble Madam Speaker, My respectful Greetings to all the Hon’ble Members of our Lok Sabha!
The Narmada Dam or Sardar Sarovar Dam, as known locally, is a gravity dam built across the Narmada river near Navagam in Gujarat. The dam is a part of the Narmada Valley Project, a large hydraulic ...
For 34 years, the people of the Valley, aided by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, ... The Sardar Sarovar dam, one of 30 major and 135 medium dams on the west-flowing Narmada river, ...
India's Narmada River was the lifeblood of countless farmers and villages until a dam project caused a massive ecological disaster. It's now the subject of a new Australian play.
In the current context of planned closure of the SSP dam sluice gates (understood as planned for 09 May 2017 by NCA), about 40,000 PAFs (2,00,000 people) in Madhya Pradesh alone, along with their ...
legal provisions in the Narmada Valley Dispute Tribunal (NWDT) award and also the Supreme Court verdict, let alone theconstitutional and human rights of the tribals in the Narmada valley. Even the ...
The Sardar Sarovar is the largest dam of the Narmada Valley Development Project, a program dating from 1965 to build more than 30 large dams, 135 medium dams and 3,000 small dams. The Narmada ...
Rajneesh Vaish, vice-chairman, Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) rubbished claims of NBA and others that MP doesn’t benefit much from SSP. “We are getting 857 of 1,450 MW power from SSP.
Tectonically, the Narmada Valley is a graben, a layered block of the Earth's crust that dropped down relative to the blocks on either side due to the ancient spreading of the Earth's crust. Channel ...