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... dam all to itself . " - Ram Bai , whose village was submerged when the Bargi dam was built on the Narmada . She now lives in a slum in Jabalpur.3 In the fifty years since Independence , after Nehru's famous 6 "People say that the Sardar ...
... dam all to itself . " - Ram Bai , whose village was submerged when the Bargi dam was built on the Narmada . She now lives in a slum in Jabalpur.3 In the fifty years since Independence , after Nehru's famous 6 "People say that the Sardar ...
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... dams . The Bargi dam near Jabalpur was the first dam on the Narmada to be completed ( in 1990 ) . It cost ten times more than was budgeted and submerged three times more land than the engineers said it would . About 70,000 people from ...
... dams . The Bargi dam near Jabalpur was the first dam on the Narmada to be completed ( in 1990 ) . It cost ten times more than was budgeted and submerged three times more land than the engineers said it would . About 70,000 people from ...
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... Bargi dam irrigates only as much land as it submerged in the first place - and only 5 % of the area that its planners claimed it would irrigate . Even that is water - logged . 44 Time and again , it's the same story . The Andhra Pradesh ...
... Bargi dam irrigates only as much land as it submerged in the first place - and only 5 % of the area that its planners claimed it would irrigate . Even that is water - logged . 44 Time and again , it's the same story . The Andhra Pradesh ...
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