Narmada Bachao Aandolan was a collective local organization’s movement to save river Narmada which opposed the construction of multi-purpose dam „ “The Narmada Sagar Project” and questioned the ongoing developmental projects in the country:
1. Narmada Bachao Aandolan linked its opposition to Sardar Sarovar Project with larger issues concerning the nature of ongoing developmental projects, an efficiency of the model of development that the country followed and about what constituted the public interest in a democracy.
2. It demanded that there should be a cost-benefit analysis of the major development projects due to the construction of the dam submerged around 245 villages to require two and a half lakh population to be relocated.
3. The movement demanded proper rehabilitation of all those to be affected by the construction of these projects.
4. This movement also questioned the nature of the decision-making process to be in the framing of mega-scale development projects.
5. The movement also insisted that local communities must have a say in such decision making along with an effective control over natural resources.
6. Hence, NBA achieved a comprehensive National Rehabilitation Policy formed by the government in 2003.
