How the people in the NBA movement see the process of resettlement promises?
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Explanation:
Fifty-six years ago, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone at Gora in south Gujarat for a 49.4-metre dam on the river Narmada.
Disputes among Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra over sharing water from the river led to delays in the project until the setting up of the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) in 1969 which resolved them. Over the decades, the dam grew in height gradually and it now stands at 138.68 m—89 m taller than originally intended. The argument was that the taller the dam, the better for irrigation and drinking water supply, and power generation. But the fact that it would entail much more rehabilitation responsibility never seemed to have been taken seriously.
The increase in the height of the dam is at the core of the controversy over Sardar Sarovar. In 1991, the dam’s biggest funder, the World Bank, was forced to commission an independent review after seeing the extent of resistance to the dam. The Morse report, as the review is commonly referred to, flatly said resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) of people in such vast numbers was not possible and that the environmental impact had not been properly assessed
The Sardar Sarovar Project was initially expected to be created with World Bank money. After vigorous protest, intense mobilisations, hunger, marches, fasts and and global campaign World Bank had decided to abandon its funding
Explanation:
- While it failed to prevent the construction of Sardar Sarovar dam, the NBA movement managed, to compel everyone to rethink about the nature of development - whether it was to the benefit of the poor or rich & mighty. It has managed to force everyone to rethink the utility of large construction projects that have so much affected nature. It compelled govts to consider giving respectable & adequate compensation for such "development induced displacement" of people.
- Though the govt's declared policy & plan is proclaimed to be progressive & land-based, it has unable to "guarantee land" to those who lost their "livelihoods". The environmental measures until now have not been "complied with", and the dam's height has been raised disregarding the various conditions that was made in the "clearances & the policy promises is unjust".
- The movement also continues to remind the world, that what little has been done by submerging the habitats of "nature-based communities" and taking on massive ecological, climate, and financial costs is not for he benefit of the poor people of Kutch, but companies and major cities in Gujarat
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