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Narmada Authority wants Action Taken Reports

By Gargi Parsai

New Delhi Dec. 11. A meeting of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) has asked the Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh Governments to submit Action Taken Reports on the status of rehabilitation and resettlement of the people displaced by the Narmada dam project before considering the Gujarat request to raise the height of the dam being constructed in the State.

The meeting, chaired by the Union Water Resources Secretary, V.K. Duggal, here today took note of the attempt by 15 tribals to commit suicide at the dam site in Kevadia Colony, Gujarat, last week but there was no official word on it. Gujarat does not recognise the people affected by the canal or the colony as project-affected for rehabilitation and resettlement.

Sources said the Authority asked the States concerned to submit the report of the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRA) set up in each State on the orders of the Supreme Court to ascertain the status of rehabilitation and resettlement. After that, the NCA will visit the States and a meeting of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Sub-Group will be held before considering Gujarat's request for permission to raise the dam height from the present 100 metres to 110 metres.

The meeting, attended by representatives from the four riparian States including Rajasthan, discussed the NCA budget and decided to meet again in February to consider raising the height of the dam.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan criticised the lack of rehabilitation and resettlement for the project- affected people in the riparian States, including Gujarat, and said that in the Government's scheme of things the canal and colony affected people and the impact on livelihoods in the command and catchment areas were not there. There were thousands who had not been resettled even at the height of 90 metres.

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