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INDIA: DAM WATERS FLOW, BUT CRITICS SEE HEAVY LOSSES AHEAD.
by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS/GIN) -- As water from the massive Narmada valley dam in central India trickled this week into the parched Kutch district close to the Pakistan border, people danced and sang, oblivious to what critics say are huge social, ecological and other costs incurred along the way.
The highest price is being paid by some 12,000 tribal and peasant families in the Narmada valley, whose lands and dwellings will be submerged when the giant Sardar Sarovar dam across the Narmada river reaches a height of 103 meters over the next 45 days.
"Everyone concerned knows that it is practically impossible to save these people or their fertile lands and large well-settled villages bustling with agrarian, commercial and social activities," said Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) or Save the Narmada Movement.
For two decades, NBA has opposed the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam, but failed to stop it.
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