The Greater Common GoodArticle on Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project. |
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... human decree to produce as much water as the Government of India commands . Its proponents boast that the Narmada Valley Project is the most ambitious river valley project ever conceived in human history . They plan to build 3,200 dams ...
... human decree to produce as much water as the Government of India commands . Its proponents boast that the Narmada Valley Project is the most ambitious river valley project ever conceived in human history . They plan to build 3,200 dams ...
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... human and environmental concerns ... India and the states involved ... have spent a great deal of money . No one wants to see this money wasted . But we caution that it may be more wasteful to proceed without full knowledge of the human ...
... human and environmental concerns ... India and the states involved ... have spent a great deal of money . No one wants to see this money wasted . But we caution that it may be more wasteful to proceed without full knowledge of the human ...
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... human intelligence has outstripped its own instinct for survival . They're both malignant indications of a civilisation turning upon itself . They represent the severing of the link , not just the link - the understanding - between human ...
... human intelligence has outstripped its own instinct for survival . They're both malignant indications of a civilisation turning upon itself . They represent the severing of the link , not just the link - the understanding - between human ...
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40 million acres Ahmedabad Bargi dam Baroda Bhaiji Bhai Bharuch Big Dams bomb bulldozers cash compensation command area construction cost crores Dalit dam-builders displaced downstream drainage drinking water Ferkuwa fight specific wars forest Gandhi going Government of Gujarat Government of India Government's Greater Common hectares Hilsa Hoolock Gibbon human Independent Review irrigation Jabalpur Jai Prakash Associates Jalud Kevadia Colony kilometres Kutch and Saurashtra land landless labourer live loan Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Maheshwar dam Malaysia Manibeli metres monsoon moved Narmada Bachao Andolan Narmada Sagar Narmada Valley Development National Nehru Pamela Cox planners police Project Affected ragged army resettlement sites river salinity Sardar Sarovar dam Sardar Sarovar Projects Sardar Sarovar reservoir scheme Shoolpaneshwar Sanctuary silt Single Authority slated for submergence soil standing crops story Supreme Court there's thing thousand tribal Ukai Dam Undava upstream Valley Development Project villages wars in specific water-logging Wonder Canal World Bank