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By Gargi Parsai
NEW DELHI, APRIL 12 . An emergency meeting of the Narmada Control Authority today directed the basin States of the Sardar Sarovar Project to comply with the recent Supreme Court order on rehabilitation and resettlement of the project-affected persons. The issue of raising the height of the Narmada dam from the present 110.64 metres was not discussed, although Gujarat pressed for it. The meeting, chaired by the NCA Chairman and Water Resource Secretary J. Hari Narayan, discussed at length the Supreme Court order passed on March 15. Representatives of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and senior officials of the Water Resource Ministry attended the meeting. Sources said there were serious implications to the court's order in that the number of persons to be rehabilitated would go up "substantially," especially in Madhya Pradesh, the State which had the largest number of displaced persons. This would have a bearing on the earlier timetable set by the Centre. A recently-formed task force of engineers and officials would assess the fresh number of project-affected people. After that the Action Taken Report of the States would be considered by the Grievance Redressal Agency. Their findings would be taken up in the NCR Sub-Group for Rehabilitation and Resettlement before a view is taken on raising the height. Officially, the number of affected families as of now is said to be over 44,000, half of whom are claimed to be rehabilitated — a fact disputed by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). It was on the NBA petition that the Supreme Court ordered on March 11 that due to the increased height even temporary and partially submerged project-affected people would be entitled to alternative cultivable land allotment by the States. The court also ruled that adult sons would be entitled to independent rehabilitation through separate land allotments. To be able to comply with the stipulation that the affected persons be rehabilitated before raising the height of the dam, Madhya Pradesh today pleaded that the height not be raised to the next level of 121.92 metres at one go but in phases.
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