Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Presented By:
Vidya Hanchate 10
Mohammed Shahnoor Khan 20
Kunal Malode 30
Talhah Patel 40
Sudhir Singh 50
SUDARSHAN KHEDEKAR 60
“they say that even the site of the river will cleanse all of your sins”
The Narmada river
• Insufficient compensation
Admirable POINTS TO THE
ENVIRONMENTAL
1. Overwhelmed low
rainfall, unreliable
monsoon, long dry
season
2. Difficulties also
overcame by
irrigation
3. Create new ecosystems
e.g. Reservoirs can be build and used economically
Large water
bodies shall be
created as a
result of various
dams being
constructed on
the river
Narmada & its
tributaries.
• Established in 1989
• Sept 1989 - 60,000 people rally against destructive
development
• Jan 1990 – 5,000 people marched on the Narmada
Valley Development authority offices forcing them to
close
• March 1990 – 10,000 protesters blocked the highway
from Bombay for two days
• May 1990 – 2,000 people staged a sit-in outside the
prime ministers house in Delhi
“Save the Narmada Movement”
• Christmas Day 1990 – Long March – 3,000 people walked
100km, which took a week to the dam site and 6 others went on a
hunger strike demanding the government suspend work on the
dam and hold an independent review. It lasted 22 days until they
broke fast – this made Narmada an international issue.
• Jan 1991 – The World Bank commissions independent review
Why did the World Bank withdraw the
loan?
• It was a protest by the NBA
called 'satyagraha' that caught
the World Banks attention.
• Preconstruction activities of
Garudeshwar weir has been taken
up.
• Jain, Sonu (2004). Can Gujarat quench the great thirst? The Indian
Express. March 14
• Rangachari, R., Sengupta, N., Iyer, R.R., Banerji, P., and Singh, S.
(2000). Large Dams: India’s Experience, a WCD case study
prepared a an input to the World Commission on Dams, Capetown,
www.dams.org
Thank you