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agitation raised against their construction

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major dams in india:

Cheruthoni dam, Kerala: Height 453 feet, Length 651 meter, Capacity 32MW

Indira sagar Dam, Madhya Pradesh: Height 302 meter, length 653 meter, capacity 1000MW

Krishnarajasagar Dam, Karnataka: Height 131 feet, Length 2620 meter

Mettur Dam, Tamil Nadu: Height 214 meter, Length 1700 meter

Bisalpur Dam, Rajasthan: Height 130 feet, Length 574 meter

Koyna Dam, maharashtra: Height 399 feet, Length 807 meter

Maithon Dam, Jharkhand: Height 165 feet, length 4789 meter

Rihand Dam, Uttar Pradesh: Height 299 ft, LENGTH 934 meter, capacity 300MW

TungaBhadra dam, Karnataka: Height 162 ft, Length 2449 meter, Capacity 72MW

Bhavanisagar Dam, Tamil nadu: Height 130ft, length 1700 meter.

Agitation raised against the construction of Indian Dams:

Narmada Bachao Andolan, Sardar sarovar Dam: In 1979 government took decision for raising height of sardar sarovar Dam motivated by it will provide water to the about 40 million people.

In 1985 medha Patkar who had lead this agitation visited Sardar Sarovar dam and its came to the picture that they did not fulfilled basic environmental conditions.

There were lots of people around which will be affected by this construction but there is no planning for that and they didn't check land records. That's why this Movement took place.

This is just a Simple and Major example of Dams agitation. There are so many dams like assam dams have agitation against them. They have different circumstances but the main point of agitation is that it will harm livelihood of people and affect geological factors of land.

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