The Sardar Sarovar Dam over the Narmada waterway has been hounded with discussions since the time its beginning. While the dam is supposed to be life-line of Gujarat and of extraordinary favorable position to the abutting conditions of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan under the authority of Medha Patakar has been contradicting it.
Their restriction depends on the suspicion that the expanding stature of the dam would prompt the submergence of huge zones of land where many towns would be cleared out of presence. The locals living in these regions must be restored in a decent way before the dam tallness is permitted to be raised, says Medha Patakar.
The issue was taken to the Supreme Court of India. In the wake of hearing all sides, the Court permitted the raising of the tallness of the dam from 110.62 meters to 121.92 meters however requested the concerned states to guarantee the best possible restoration of the Dam. As indicated by the Narmada Bachao activists, the procedure of recovery was not being paid attention to up as it ought to have been.
The administration apparatus in all the concerned states was hounded by formality, hard postponement and wastefulness. That is the thing that constrained Medha Patakar to go on an appetite strike at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi in April last. Various noted characters like filmstar Aamir Khan, writer Kuldeep Nayar, previous Prime Minister V.P. Singh and Arundhati Roy came out transparently on the side of Medha Patakar.
The Supreme Court of India needed to by and by pull up the concerned states to finish the restoration procedure with a fixed edge of time. It cautioned the states that chip away at the Dam would be halted if the restoration work was not finished in appropriate soul.
The Court additionally asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up a board to manage the recovery work and report the advancement made back to the Court. This board of trustees headed by the previous Comptroller and Auditor General of India, V.K. Shunglim was framed to find out the advancement of the restoration work and present its report inside a quarter of a year.
The concerned states must comprehend their duty towards the individuals prone to be uprooted by the development of the Dam. No improvement is significant on the off chance that it includes the loss of human lives. The concerned states must act quickly before it is past the point of no return else they should endure the fury of the majority.
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