Damming the Narmada : India 's greatest planned environmental disaster

By:

Alvares , Claude

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Dehradun; Natraj Pub.; 1999Description: 196 pISBN:

8185019142

Subject(s):

Dams

DDC classification:

338.7846 ALV

Summary: The Narmada Dams project is going to be India's greatest man-made environmental disaster. Funded by the World Bank, the project will uproot over a million people, most of them tribals, depriving them of their homes and their livelihood. It will also submerge 350,000 hectares of forest, leading to the extinction of valuable plant species and the mass slaughter of wildlife. The authors, who had access to official documents related to the project, give a detailed study of the dam's impact, and expose the large-scale manipulation and fraud that led to the approval of the project. Also included are exclusive interviews with top officials of the Narmada Valley Development Authority, one of whom has already joined opponents to the dams.

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The Narmada Dams project is going to be India's greatest man-made environmental disaster.

Funded by the World Bank, the project will uproot over a million people, most of them tribals, depriving them of their homes and their livelihood. It will also submerge 350,000 hectares of forest, leading to the extinction of valuable plant species and the mass slaughter of wildlife. The authors, who had access to official documents related to the project, give a detailed study of the dam's impact, and expose the large-scale manipulation and fraud that led to the approval of the project.

Also included are exclusive interviews with top officials of the Narmada Valley Development Authority, one of whom has already joined opponents to the dams.

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