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Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) concerns Narmada River, the river of Madhya Pradesh. With 87% of its catchment area lying in Madhya Pradesh, it becomes all the more important for the state to exploit this enormous water resource.
Command Area Development. Wildlife Protection and Rehabilitation. Flora Fauna. Health Aspects. Fisheries. Archaeological Survey. Agriculture. Physical Achievement of CAT. Narmada Kshipra Simhasth Link Project.
As one of the 25 dams planned on river Narmada, the Sardar Sarovar Dam is the largest structure to be built. It is the second largest concrete dam in the world in terms of the volume of concrete used in its construction, after the Grand Coulee Dam across the Columbia River, US.
The Narmada Valley Development Project is the single largest river development scheme in India. It is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world and will displace approximately 1.5 million people from their land in three states (Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh).
Mar 1, 2010 · The Narmada Valley Project (NVP) is made up of plans for 30 major, 136 medium and 3,000 minor dams in India. In Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) in the state of Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar Project (NSP) in the state of Madhya Pradesh are, at present, the NVP's major constituents.
Medha Patkar (born December 1, 1954, Bombay [now Mumbai], Maharashtra state, India) is an Indian social activist known chiefly for her work with people displaced by the Narmada Valley Development Project (NVDP), a large-scale plan to dam the Narmada River and its tributaries in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
Narmada River valley is the largest west flowing river and also known as the Life Line of Madhya Pradesh. There are 30 major dams,135 medium dams and around 3000 minor dam projects are proposed along with long canals on the Narmada Basin by NVDA.
Mar 13, 2023 · The Narmada project will be completed by 2025 at a cost of Rs 79,000 crore, said Cabinet Minister Rushikesh Patel in the Gujarat Assembly on Monday, while responding to queries raised by Congress MLA from Vadgam Assembly constituency Jignesh Mevani alleging that 50 per cent work of the canal was pending.
Sep 17, 2017 · The Sardar Sarovar Dam came up as part of the Narmada Valley Development plan. It was first conceived in the pre-Independence era in 1946. The Sardar Sarovar Dam was planned for harnessing the Narmada river water for irrigation and power generation.
18.56 Narmada Valley Project, India RECOGNIZING that major dams have created major and irreversible ecological damage in many parts of the world; CONSIDERING that the proposed Narmada Valley Project, consisting of approximately 30 major, 300 medium and 3000 minor dams, will be one of the largest river valley projects in the world;
