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Oct 7, 2017 · The Sardar Sarovar Dam, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, has been a controversial subject for the last six decades. The dam – built on the Narmada river in...
Sep 17, 2017 · On occasion of his 67th birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. The project which has been the subject of much controversy for decades now is reported to be one of the largest dams in the world.
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is one of the biggest dams built within the framework of the Narmada River Development project which started in 1979 thanks to the award of the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT – see Narmada Dam Water Dispute between Indian States).
The Narmada Dam has been the center of controversy and protests since the late 1980s. One such protest takes center stage in the Spanner Films documentary Drowned Out (2002), which follows one tribal family who decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.
Sep 27, 2019 · The institutional machinery that controls the river and the dam – namely, the Narmada Control Authority and its Environment Sub-Group (ESG) refuses to release adequate downstream flow to keep the river alive and flowing from source to sea during the dry seasons.
Nov 16, 2000 · Controversy. 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...
Sep 23, 2019 · At least 178 villages in Madhya Pradesh submerged after Sardar Sarovar Dam reaches maximum capacity, activists say. People took out a rally in Barwani district to protest the rise in the water ...
Jan 17, 2019 · Twenty years later, as large dams continue to be built, their critics have shifted the battle off the streets to new arenas – to courts and government committees, in particular – and switched to a techno-managerial discourse of maintaining river health. What accounts for this change?
Dec 16, 2015 · The construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in western India has been the subject of great controversy as it became a go-to example of environmental protection and indigenous rights discourses in the 1990s and 2000s.
campaigned against the construction of a series of dams on the Narmada river, one of the largest of which is known as the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). Activists associated with these groups,
