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| | Narmada Dam Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Narmada Dam has been the center of controversy and protest since the late 1980s. | | | Local protests taking the form of a genuine peoples movement, known as the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) have been led by Medha Patkar. | | | Narmada Dam protests: Villagers stay put, defying government officials |
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| | [Ornet] More on Narmada |
| | This is because the water had only reached Maliya by Friday and the state government, to avoid embarrassment, hurriedly made use of Macchu-II water. | | | Modi said the people of Gujarat, including NRIs, had to be credited for the Narmada project's success. | | | The NBA had said the land allotments were ex-parte and only on paper. |
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http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/ornet/2002-May/004419.html
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| | prdomain: books: Narmada Diary |
| | The Narmada Bachao Andolan activists claim that during a satyagraha in Manibeli, the police officer ordered his juniors to tear off a woman's clothes in public. | | | One of the project's affected persons, Butia Vasava, did not oppose or question the authority of the government because "we were told that we would drown, so we had to shift. | | | Poolani and Madangarli dwell deeper into the problem, bringing into view shocking facts that were ignored by the press and the government. |
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http://www.prdomain.com/books/pr_narmada.htm
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| | NARMADA DAM: People vs. Development - NI 336 - Keynote: The day of judgement |
| | The Narmada story winds through the political, economic and cultural fabric of three Indian states (Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra) and up into the international stratosphere to the battle-lines against globalization. | | | The day after the judgement, Medha Patkar was again interviewed on TV and regretted shedding tears the night before. | | | For sentiments like these Medha, Arundhati Roy, and the NBA’s chief advocate, Prashant Bhushan, have since been charged with contempt. |
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http://www.newint.org/issue336/keynote.htm
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| | proXsa: Narmada Page |
| | The NBA has also painstakingly identified the flaws in the rationale for the monstrous dam, which promises to displace hundreds of thousands of people and submerge hundreds of kilometers of the richly forested valley, for very dubious and questionable "benefits" to be realized by the people of Gujarat. | | | The IRN also maintains an extensive list of documents on the SSP and the Narmada Bachao Andolan. | | | This support has been in the form of disseminating information about the activities of the Andolan, lobbying the US government as well as the major financial institutions to listen to the concerns of the people of the Narmada Valley, as well as generally coordinating activities related to supporting the NBA. |
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http://www.proxsa.org/economy/ecology/nbapg.html
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| | World Rivers Review, June 1997 |
| | The world's worst confirmed reservoir-induced earthquake was triggered by the Koyna Dam in the watershed of the Krishna River in Maharashtra state in 1967. | | | Some seismologists, however, believe that the devastating magnitude 6.4 earthquake which struck Killari, Maharashtra in 1993, killing 10,000 people, was induced by a nearby reservoir. | | | See the Narmada Campaign page for more information. |
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http://www.irn.org/pubs/wrr/9706/narmada.html
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| | State Repression in the Narmada Valley |
| | This state of affairs diverges from the conditions of the Narmada Project Rehabilitation Policy mapped by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. | | | The police assault those facing submergence, destroying homes, forcibly evicting people, harassing activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. | | | They assert that the quality of life will significantly improve because of the political and economic decisions made in support of the Sardar Sarovar. |
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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/Chatterji_Narmada-Repression.htm
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| | Narmada diary |
| | The people had accepted the cash-compensation option for their land because they believed the dam could never be built, because according to legend, the Narmada cannot be stopped. | | | If the gates had been opened, Jabalpur would have been flooded; because they weren't, Mandla was. | | | The flooding, devastation and destitution would be invisible. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0107/01070360.htm
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| | “Till the Rivers All Run Dry”: A Human Ecological Analysis of the Narmada Bachao Andolan |
| | The one in Jalsindhi was by the governments of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, and would be submerged by the SSP project in Gujarat. | | | The NBA has steadfastly maintained that ‘tall’ claims on the part of the government are exaggerated and untenable. | | | Excerpts from an interview with Keshav Bhai by Savita Kini and L.S. Aravinda of the NBA (during early 2000). |
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http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj14/maiti1.html
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| | 03/14/00 -- India: World Awaits Court's Decision on Narmada Dam |
| | The movement also relentlessly exposed the working of pro-dam lobbies greedy for quick profits but trampling over the rights of local people who are sought to be translocated from their traditional homelands with little or no compensation. | | | In the 21 years of its existence, the NBA has demanded, on behalf of the people, to be heard by governments and by such institutions as the World Bank and ultimately forced it to withdraw from participation in the Narmada project. | | | The NBA, which started out by demanding rehabilitation for the displaced people, has since opened up such areas environmental devastation, human rights violation, sustainable development and good governance which are still alien concepts in India. |
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| | OneWorld.net - OneWorld.net / News / Campaigns / Archives / narmada dam |
| | 09.11.1999 The defence of the Sardar Sarovar Project in the Narmada valley by the Maharashtra Peasants' Movement is based on false information and goes against the interests of the peasants, say the Friends of the Narmada, who are calling on the Gujarat government to initiate a public debate on the project. | | | 11.10.1999 Medha Patkar has been a prominent leader and activist in the campaign against the Narmada Dam for the last 14 years. | | | More information can be found on the OneWorld topic pages |
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http://www.oneworld.net/article/archive/294?PrintableVersion=enabled
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| | SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Development in the Narmada Valley: An Edifice to Injustice |
| | The Narmada watershed is home to about 20 million peasants and adivasi people whose subsistence is critically linked to their land, forests and water. | | | At Domkhedi, Medha Patkar, awe inspiring activist of the Narmada Movement, stands in knee deep water. | | | About 50 other people keep vigil with her. |
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http://www.sikhspectrum.com/092002/dam.htm
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| | CHITTAROOPA PALIT - MONSOON RISINGS |
| | Then, almost immediately, there was a TV report saying that 4,000 people had already gathered in the Narmada Valley to condemn the judgement and to decide on its implications in a united manner, ‘from Jalsindhi to Jalkothi’. | | | The four state governments involved—the non-riparian Rajasthan as well as the other three—have seen the Narmada’s waters simply as loot, to be divided among themselves. | | | It is the marginalized people of the Narmada Valley who know the system at its worst, and have some of the richest experiences in struggling against it. |
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| | This was the first time the people came to know that this was the great science behind this project which claimed to have a public purpose. | | | Only in Narmada can we find detailed evidence from all these times. | | | River does not know what are the states. |
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http://www.aidindia.org/publications/proceedings/india_1999/speaker11.htm
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| | Narmada dams and human rights |
| | However, the enforcement machinery is either lacking or unavailable in this specific case and this tends to relegate human rights to moral claims that are not taken as seriously by the Indian government as, say, the conditions of a public or private bank loan for the same project. | | | Again, numerous reports of d isplacement violating some or all of these norms come from the Narmada valley. | | | JHARANA JHAVERI and Arundhati Roy's visit highlighted to members of the international community, ranging from human rights activists to U.N. and government officials, the numerous human rights violations that have occurred and are occurring in the Narmad a valley. |
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| | Learning from Narmada |
| | This panel, established in September 1994, investigates claims by affected parties that the Bank has failed to adhere to its operational policies and procedures in the design, appraisal, and/or implementation of its ongoing or new operations. | | | Based on the facts and assumptions presented in the Bank's project completion reports, the projects would realize an economic return of more than 10 percent when completed. | | | According to some, such as Narmada Bachao Andolan, there has not been a single satisfactory resettlement in the Narmada valley. |
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| | Narmada Bachao Andolan - Responses to Dams & Development - A new framework for decision-making |
| | The only hope for the future lies in the people asserting their rights and control over their resources and lives against appropriation by the ruling elites. | | | Mr.Sanjay Suri, the correspondent of India Abroad News Service, one wonders, had a different report with him, while reporting that the WCD report boosts the Narmada project. | | | It is towards this end that the struggles against large dams and for self-reliant reconstruction with natural and human resources have to go on in Narmada and other river valleys. |
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| | BBC NEWS World South Asia Narmada dam activist arrested |
| | A spokesman for the Save Narmada Movement, Pervin Jehangir, told the BBC that the other activists had been detained by police at the Dev Lali station. | | | Medha Patkar created the Narmada protest movement and has found supporters among high-profile figures such as the Indian author, Arundhati Roy. | | | She was protesting against the lack of government help given to those people displaced by the creation of the Narmada river dam. |
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| | NARMADA DAM: People vs. Development - NI 336 - Contents |
| | Artist Lucy Willis, who drew and painted in Narmada for NI, has painted extensively in India, and in Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, Yemen and Zanzibar. | | | In the end I didn’t write the Commission report. | | | A concept about the advance of human society and its poorest members has been appropriated by vested interests to promote their own agenda. |
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| | -Vyas floats Narmada body |
| | The first meeting of the Narmada Samarthan was held at the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday. | | | Speaking to reporters at a press conference held here on Friday, Mr Vyas said that the organization will work towards raising awareness among the people and launch a web site with regular updates on the project, to create an environment in favour of the project. | | | The Narmada Samarthan also hopes to bring all pro-Narmada organizations under one banner. |
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http://www.ahmedabad.com/news/2k1/june/16narmada.htm
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| | Udall, Lori "The International Narmada Campaign: A Case Study of Stustained Advocacy" pp.201 -good account of how NGOs and activists galvanized international opinion against WB -outlines WB involvment -how they publicized their cause, toured, et.. | | | I think it sets the agenda for anti-dam activists, as much of the later critiques are essentially the same. | | | 269-296 -Bhartari, Rajiv, et al."The Narmada valley project--development or destruction?" -Colchester, Marcus "The World Bank ignores human suffering and is in breach of international law" -Kothari, Ashish "A new bottle for the same old wine: an answer to the World Bank" -these might be some of the first writings in the press about it. |
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| | Indymedia Birmingham, UK Call for International Solidarity Actions Against the Narmada Dam 23rd-27th Nov |
| | Thanks to huge international support for the last 20 years, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) became one of the first peoples’ movements to take on the mighty World Bank and make it conduct a thorough independent review of one of its projects. | | | Following a damning review published in 1992, which stated that the project was flawed, the World Bank was forced to pull out of the project. | | | Over 150,000 tribal people and farmers already displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), 7,000 hectares of prime forest already submerged, and still thousands of families continue to be pushed off their ancestral lands without adequate compensation or alternative land to turn to for their livelihood. |
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http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2005/11/327177.html
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| | Narmada on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The project has been controversial both in India and internationally, in part because of the thousands of people who will need to be resettled. | | | Arundhati Roy next to the Narmada River, protesting against the development of the dam. | | | The Narmada, sacred to Hindus, is said to have sprung from the body of the god Shiva ; a round-trip pilgrimage on foot along its entire length is highly esteemed. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/Narmada.asp
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| | She Said it - Saving the Narmada by Lynette Dumble |
| | Such a review of a World Bank-funded was unprecedented, and no other has since been sanctioned. | | | She Said it - Saving the Narmada by Lynette Dumble | | | One of the leaders of the NBA movement is Medha Patkar, a social scientist and environmental and human rights activist who has lived among the tribals of the Narmada Valley since the mid-1980s. |
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| | New Internationalist: They only 'hold pen'.(dam on India's Narmada Ri... @ HighBeam Research |
| | All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. | | | On 6 March 1990, Baba Amte moved from his previous ashram to live on Narmada's banks, to lend his presence and his prestige to the Andolan. | | | The Narmada is the defining element in the landscape, the lives of whose inhabitants it has ruled materially and spiritually for thousands of years. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77827035&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | de.indymedia.org Alarm im Narmada Tal in Indien |
| | In the past monsoons, the people of the Narmada valley and activists of Save the Narmada movement (Narmada Bachao Andolan) led by Medha Patkar have refused to move despite water levels rising up to their necks, as a non-violent protest against lack of rehabilitation and government apathy. | | | We also severely condemn the use of police brutality and arrests of indigenous peoples and activists. | | | Furthermore, an overwhelming number of project-affected persons are indigenous peoples (adivasi) and given serious irregularities in the resettlement and rehabilitation, this would be flagrant violation of their rights protected under the Indian Constitution and international conventions. |
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| | Cover story: Holy waters: a trip up the Narmada River |
| | Although beaten by the police and hauled off to jail, they persevered in their sit-ins, argued face-to-face with government officials, and insisted on one occasion that James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, meet with them, the poor women directly affected by the development project his institution once funded. | | | A young Adivasi woman, Murildhar is also a Narmada Bachao Andolan activist and the movement was delighted that one of their own would be able to represent “the cause” in a local political forum. | | | Approximately 30 internationals and Indians signed up for the weeklong tour organized by the National Alliance of People’s Movements, a coalition of more than 200 Indian grass-roots organizations engaged in anti-development struggles. |
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| | The Narmada Story Tanmaya Kumar Nanda Oct 18 |
| | All that it led to was the formation of the Narmada Waters Dispute Tribunal (NWDT) by the Government of India in 1969. | | | Ahmedabad: The controversy-stalked Narmada dam project, spanning three of India's largest states, is perhaps the most documented and debated of all hydroelectric projects - but the least implemented. | | | The Central government cleared the project in 1980 but the Planning Commission provided funds only in 1988, which was when work started, after nearly four decades of planning. |
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| | FRIENDS OF THE RIVER NARMADA: The Struggle Continues ... |
| | Huge demonstration of Indira Sagar oustees in Khandwa: Thousands of oustees file complaints at camp on 14th October | | | Through this website, we the friends of the Narmada valley and its people hope to present the perspective of grassroots people's organisations on the issue. | | | Support Narmada valley families who are facing submergence this year |
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| | The Films of Ali Kazimi - Narmada - a Valley Rises |
| | Peaceful resistance has been met with further police repression. | | | Downstream in the state of Gujarat a massive dam known as the Sardar Sarovar Project is nearing completion. | | | Medha Patkar, a charismatic 35-year-old social activist from Bombay, has lived with the people of the Narmada valley since 1985 and has been instrumental in organising a grassroots movement against the dam. |
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http://www.socialdoc.net/kazimi/ali_html_pages2/1AK2Nar.html
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| | India’s Greatest Planned Environmental Disaster: The Narmada Valley Dam Projects |
| | The Narmada Bachao Andolan and other organizations believe otherwise. | | | The Narmada River, on which the Indian government plans to build some 3,200 dams, flows through three states: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. | | | “India: Peaceful Demonstrators Against the Narmada Dam Project Arrested, Beaten, and Intimidated by Police.” The Sierra Club: Human Rights Campaigns. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/Jones/narmada.html
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| | CorpWatch : Save The Narmada, Save Humanity! |
| | It is sure that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) would prove to be another Enron for the state and government has to call a halt and review the project before it is too late. | | | As the people in the Narmada valley will be facing the submergence, the government of Maharashtra will face the challenge to its credibility. | | | The NBA and other independent experts have shown that the power from the Sardar Sarovar Project would be most uncertain and miniscule for the state. |
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| | Narmada/ India: Dam Protests |
| | press note from the Narmada Bachao Andolan (16.6.) | | | from Inflicting Blow to People in Narmada Valley (21.5.) | | | Narmada URGENT: Unwarranted Repression of a Peaceful People's Movement (15 Oct 2000) |
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http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/dams/narmada
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| | Large dams on the Narmada Valley |
| | The struggle of the people of the Narmada valley against large dams began when the people to be displaced by SSP began organizing in 1985-86. | | | Govind Narayan Singh, objected to the unprecedented submergence as a result of the dam and contested the claims of Gujarat on the Narmada waters. | | | This "dream" syndrome became very strong and was subsequently used by every politician in Gujarat to leverage political support for the Narmada project. |
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| | Under Siege in the Narmada Valley |
| | It is a war by the state on its people. | | | In the Narmada Valley, the government is seeking to wrench control over land and livelihood from its poorest citizens. | | | The Narmada Project has made contentious claims that it will bring water to areas where the need for water is immense. |
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| | AID :: Your Voice Counts...:: Narmada |
| | Through the Narmada movement AID has been introduced to many other activists, community organizations, and the National Alliance of People's Movements. | | | Uniting these movements is a strong belief in people's power to work for a just society and sustainable development through unity of sangharsh (struggle) and nirman (constructive work). | | | At the AID-India 1999 conference, NBA Activist Sanjay Sangvai described the background and main issues of the Narmada movement. |
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| | Fwd: Satyagraha in Narmada Valley, Manoj Plakal |
| | Since August last year these young people had decided to dedicate themselves to the work in the Narmada villages and as a result this year there were several new directions that people who came from far and near to express solidarity could see. | | | Geetanjali, Pravin, Vishram, Clifton, Ashutosh, Jayanti and Shobha who had like us come to satyagraha last year had joined the NBA and were now mobilizing the village people and taking charge of the arrangements. | | | The Satyagraha, this year not only took off from where it left last year, without showing a single sign of retreating, but it also is bringing to sharp focus, alternatives in water, energy and development. |
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| | The Films of Ali Kazimi - Narmada - a Valley Rises - Longer Reviews |
| | The World Bank pulled out of the project, the people of the Narmada valley were honoured worldwide and, even though the Indian government is continuing with the dam, the story isn't over yet. | | | Ali Kazimi's film movingly documents the agitation against the Narmada dam. | | | For anyone worn down or cynical about social struggle, Narmada shows how it can be both effective and inspiring. |
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| | Narmada River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Narmada is one of very ancient rivers and as per (A person who adheres to Hinduism) Hindu mythology it is flowing from 7 Kalpas | | | Naturally formed smooth stones called Banas are found in Narmada which are worshipped as Shivalingas. | | | The Supreme Court in 1999 declared that the Dam should be completed and it slammed the Narmada Bachao Andolao for opposing the construction of the dam. |
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| | Narmada is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. | | | This is a good practice for retired people. | | | Narmada: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Svayambhu Linga |
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| | ::: NCA :::: Narmada Control Authority ______________________________________________ |
| | The concerned party State was required to submit to the Authority project report of Sardar Sarovar, Narmada Sagar, Omkareshwar and Maheshwar to enable the Authority to examine if any feature of the project are in conflict with the implementation of the orders of the NWDT. | | | The concerned party State is also required to bring before the Authority any subsequent change in the project relating to salient features or cost. | | | MP to make uniform monthly release of 834.65 Mcum (0.677 Maf) from Narmada Sagar ex-Maheshwar to meet the requirements at Sardar Sarovar. |
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| | GN Online: Narmada villagers' life under threat |
| | The land-based resettlement is a cardinal provision of the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal, to which the state governments had sworn allegiance. | | | The land-based resettlement was endorsed by the Supreme Court verdict in October 2000. | | | The Central Government, the Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra governments along with the Narmada Control Authority (NCA), which has given the conditional consent, have violated every single provision, norm, law and even the Supreme Court order of October 2000 regarding the resettlement of displaced people. |
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Narmada: A history of controversy |
| | In what was seen as a major victory for the anti-dam activists, the World Bank withdrew from the Narmada project in 1993. | | | The Narmada originates in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and empties into the Arabian sea after flowing through Maharashtra and Gujarat states. | | | The Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), which is spearheading the protest, says the project will displace more than 200,000 people apart from damaging the fragile ecology of the region. |
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| | Narmada Bachao Andolan |
| | This becomes evident as one looks at the internationalization of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. | | | After the International Narmada Campaign Japanese symposium, thousands of letters condemning the project, forced the Japanese-based Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, a principle investor in the dam, to cease all support of the construction of Sardar Sarovar. | | | Such groups, which deal with the environment as well as human rights, internationalized the movement. |
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| | Narmada River Dams, India |
| | Led by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada movement), activists and villagers forced the World Bank to withdraw from the project in the early 90s. | | | Affected people have vowed to face submergence rather than sacrifice their livelihoods for the project. | | | Thousands of villagers and tribal people living in the Narmada valley are fiercely opposed to the project. |
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| | Cultue Course Vol - III - The Narmada ( Page 1) |
| | It is found only in the Narmada People take it home and worship it. | | | Chandod, Karnali, Broach, Omkar - nath are some of the important places of pilgrimage on the banks of the Narmada. | | | People from all over the country come on pilgri- mage, and to bathe in the river. |
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| | Government of Gujarat (NRI Division) helps to non resident gujarati who origin in gujarat and resides anywhere in the ... |
| | Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited has been set up by the Government of Gujarat as a 100% Government owned undertaking, to implement this project. | | | The benefits and the costs of the project have been allocated to the four sponsoring states by the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal, which gave its Award after 10 Years of deliberations. | | | Along with the other major River Valley Projects, India’s leaders had conceived a project for the utilization of the waters of Narmada, the largest West-flowing river in the country. |
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| | APE - Animals, People and the Environment: Narmada Dam |
| | Part of the President's business party included executives from the Ogden Energy Group, part of Ogden Corporation of New York, who are to meet nearly half the construction costs. | | | Despite enormous protests at the dam construction project on the Narmada River in India, President Clinton's recent five-day visit to India has consolidated plans for the completion of the project. | | | One of a series of dams to be constructed on the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh in central India, the partially completed Maheshwar Dam will make homeless nearly 40,000 farmers and fishermen in 61 villages. |
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http://www.ivu.org/ape/news/indiandams
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| | The Narmada Valley Development Authority is a multidisciplinary organisation of the State Government and its head office is at Bhopal. | | | The Narmada Control Board formed under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister is in the overall charge of the investigations and preparation of project reports, preparation of the Narmada Basin Plan, construction and maintenance of major and multipurpose projects in the Narmada Valley. | | | Looking to the importance of the environment works and the resettlement and rehabilitation (RandR) of the project affected families(PAF's) the State Government vide Resolution No. 500-2-NVD-XXVII-83 dtd 16-7-1985 decided to constitute |
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http://nvda.nic.in/dev.htm
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