GGR267H5 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 Study Q.docx
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The sardar sarovar dam is a gravity dam on the narmada river near navagam, gujarat in india. It is the largest dam and part of the narmada valley project. The project was part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. The dam displaced more than 41,000 families (over 200,000 people) in the three states of gujarat, Over 56 percent of the people affected by the dam are adivasis. The places where they were relocated to usually had less fertile land which meant that farmers had lost their source of incomes. Some of them who were previously land owners became wage labourers and in extreme cases homeless. Narmada bachao andolan (nba) is a social movement consisting of tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the sardar sarovar dam being built across the. Their mode of campaign includes hunger strikes and garnering support from film and art personalities (notably bollywood actor aamir khan).
