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What is Sardar Sarovar Project? Which benefits are expected to be if the project becomes successful? Also state the issues of relocation and rehabilitation associated with it.

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Sardar Sarovar Project is an ambitious developmental project which was launched in the Narmada valley of central India in early eighties. The project consisted of 30 big dams, 135 medium sized and around 3,000 small dams to be constructed on the Narmada and its tributaries that flow across three states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Advocates of the multipurpose mega-scale dam in Gujarat say that it would benefit huge areas of Gujarat and the three adjoining states in terms of availability of drinking water and water for irrigation, generation of electricity and increase in agricultural production. Many more subsidiary benefits like effective flood and drought control in the region were linked to the success of this dam. In the process of construction of the dam, 245 villages from these states were expected to get submerged. It required relocation of around two and a half lakh people from these villages. Issues of relocation and proper rehabilitation of the project-affected people were first raised by local activist groups. It was around 1988-89 that the issues crystallised under the banner of Narmada Bachao Aandolan, a loose collective of local voluntary organisation.

Reasons of oppose by Narmada Bachao Aandolan : 

1. Narmada Bachao Aandolan (NBA) linked its opposition to Sardar Sarovar Project with larger issues concerning the nature of ongoing developmental projects, efficacy of model of development that the country followed and what constituted public interest in a democracy. 

2. It demanded that there should be a cost benefit analysis of the major developmental projects due to construction of dam submerged around 245 villages to require two half a lakh population to be relocated. 

3. The movement demanded proper rehabilitation of all those to be affected from the construction of these projects. 

4. This movement also questioned the nature of decision making process to be in forming of mega scale development projects. 

5. 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 government in 2003. 

Democratic strategies used by it : 

• Mobilisation of support at inter-national level 

• Appeals to judiciary 

• Public rallies 

• Forms of Satyagraha

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