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According to the government, the Sardar Sarovar Dam lead do the following put up safe potable water to 30 billion people Irrigate 4. million hectares of land Produce 550 megawatts of power Provide 1,300 cubic-meters of water per yr. or municipal and industrial purposes Provide a drainage system to carry forward floodwaters It will also take the land of 320,000 people http//www. narmada. org/maps/nvdp. pg The Sardar Sarovar Dam The cost of the project was estimated at $ two hundred million, actual cost is $450 million Investors are the World Bank until 1993 (when they withdrew), Gov. of Gujarat (state where the Sardar Sarovar dam is located) and S.Kumars (Indias leading textile companies) It will displace 180,000 more than projected and affect 700,000 livelihoods Indias History with Dams According to the World Commission on dams ein truthwhere the last 50 years, India has built more than 1500 large dams. 70% of the irrigation projects are still incomplete 16 million Indian peopl e have been forced from their homes because of these dams. % of these people were not rehabilitated Picture of a village, flat an island http//www. narmada. org/images/satyagraha2003/sat7.J Opponents Dalits and Adivasi (indigenous people). In accordance to their caste system they are untouchables. Many of these people are uneducated and very few can read and write. Narmada Bachao Andolan, the Save the Narmada faeces (NBA). The movement started in 1986 when the World Bank ent India $450 million for the Sardar project. It was started by a social attainer named Medha Patkar. She is the representative for the NBA movement. Medha Patkar http//www. narmada. org/domkhedi. submergence. pictures. tml Arundhati Roy Booker Prize-winning author supporter of the Save the Narmada Movement wrote a book about the Dams in India called The Greater Common Good. Baba Amte a social worker whose work with leprosy has earned him much respect in the country among the tribal people and government officia ls. Nobody builds heroic Dams to provide drinking water to rural people. Nobody can afford to. Theres a lot of bullion in poverty . Arundhati Roy Proponents Indian Government supports the building of dams. The World Bank supported the Sardar Sarovar Dam object and loaned India $450 million.They withdrew from the project after an independent review confirmed social and environmental impacts were increasing. The Supreme Court of India has command on the Sardar Sarovar Dam. In 1995 they suspended work on the dam because the height exceeded the amount originally planned, 75m. In 1999 they ordered work to continue up to the height of 85m. Then in Oct 18, 2000 they ruled in raise of uilding the Sardar Sarovar despite global Mr Vyas, Gujarats Minister for Narmada Irrigation. l think this is a civil engineering marvel. If you have to generate a little bit of your own for the good of society, do it gladly, willingly, smilingly We have given them the outstrip and put them in the brack et which belongs to the best people.