The Experts’ Committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, in its second interim report, has indicted the government machinery for its egregious failure on almost all aspects studied, according to The Hindu.
It is no surprise. The Sardar Sarovar project on the Narmada river has been continuously opposed by Medha Patkar and her associates, not only on grounds of environmental damages, but also because of the miserable condition of the villagers who were forced to evacuate their land and houses. Most of them are still to be resettled.
Ultimately the whole dam will become redundant, like most other huge dams all over the world, as pointed out by various reports, but the government has no eyes to see it.
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