Project at Glance

• Main Dam - 1,210 m long, 163 m high from the deepest foundation
level
• Designed Live Storage Capacity of the Reservoir 5860 MCM (4.7,
million acre feet)
• Irrigation - 1.905 million Ha (1.8 million Hector in Gujarat benefitting
1 million farmers)
• Drinking Water - 9490 villages and 173 towns (30 million people)
• Hydropower - 1,450 MW installed capacity (1 billion kWh every year)
• Canal Network - Approximately 75,000 km length within Gujarat
Project Feature
Benefits from the Project
• Potential to feed as many as 20 million people
• Provide drinking water to 173 urban centers and 9490 villages.
• Two Power house with an installed capacity of 1200mw and
250mw.
• Provide flood protection to riverine reaches measuring 30,000 ha.
covering 210 villages and Bharuch city and a population of 4.0 lac in
Gujarat
• Benefits to three sanctuaries.
Project Charter
Project Roles and Responsibility
Cost incurred during the Project
• Projected cost: Rs. 6406.04 crores in 1986-87
• Actual cost: Rs. 45673.86 crores ('Working
Group on Water Resources for the 11th Five Year Plan’)
• Can go up by Rs. 70000 crores by 2012
Human Displacement Cost
• Project cost: Disbursement of land to affected families
• Monetary value - NIL
• Actual cost: Cash for Land suspended by NCA Source: TISS report on
Narmada dam
Challenges during the execution
• Adivasis- Bhils, Bhillais, Dhangar etc.
• Narmada Bachao Andolan -Medha Patkar , Baba Amte
• Supporters - Arundhati Roy, Aamir Khan, Ali Kazimi, Anand
Patwardhan
• World Bank
• Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal(NWDT)
• Various Environment Saving NGOs, Independent bodies working for
same
Risk Assessment Plan
Conclusion & Recommendation
• Strongly recommended that dam height should not be raised
• Sky rocketing costs of total project needs to be reviewed
• Rehabilitation to locals and tribal is a major concern.
• Loss due to high waterlogging and land undergoing dam water needs
to be verified.
• Environmental damage is high and non reimbursable.
• Honest comparison of benefits v/s damage is essential