Narmada dam completion likely to take 5 more years:minister
Narmada dam completion likely to take 5 more years:
By our correspondent
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 15 July, 2009
Gujarat government had planned to complete the works of Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam by the Golden Jubilee year celebrations in 2010. However yesterday at the end of the debate on Narmada and Water resourced department, minister Nitin Patel said that it will take five more years to complete the Narmada project.
The minister blamed the UPA government at the Centre and past governments in the state fot the delay.
He said, “The Central government’s authority says that construction of pillars on the Narmada dam to set up radial gates would lead to extra submergence in the upstream. This is completely wrong as there is going to be no extra submergence. Raising the dam height is getting unnecessarily delayed. As many as 14 irrigation projects have been declared national projects, but not Narmada. The state has already spent more than Rs 28,000 crore for the project, and another Rs 10,000 crore are needed to be spent. While all the other national projects are getting 90 per cent funding from the Centre, our Narmada project has to be funded by the state. This is also a reason for the delay. This situation is depriving Gujarat of 580 crore cubic metres of water annually, when Narmada dam reaches the full reservoir level of 138.68 metres. At 121.92 metres today, we are able store just 157 crore cubic metres, or one-fourth. Though we have completed the powerhouse, we are unable to use it fully because of lack of height of the dam.”
July 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
THNANX TO UPA GOVERNMENT,NEHRU-GANDHI MENTALITY STILL WORKING.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Why can’t the Gujarat Government go to the Supreme Court to expose the UPA for their unlawful, unconstitutional and discriminatory practices?
If anything, the project on Narmada river, Sardar Sarovar is the ONLY National irrigation project in Bharat. All other irrigation projects are limited to only one or two states. Whereas as Ma Narmada touches the heart of at least 5 states. Ma Narmada has become the lifeline of Bharat’s core economy, just like the Mother cow. The entire agricultural growth of Bharat and the largest chunk of processed/raw food exports earnings is single most coming from this project.
It would be foolish and a self-inflicted loss of independence if any government fails to give the priority and attention due for Sardar Sarovar project. Thanks to BJP, we finally have someone who is willing to serve justice to our economy and to prevent a large scale difficulties affecting millions of people.
Clearly, Gujarat has become the victim of jealousy, but in a classic Narendra Modi-style we should take it as an opportunity for us. and keep the lion spirit of Gujaratis, we have and will continue to progress overcoming all/every roadblocks in our way. At this juncture all the Gujaratis need to cooperate with each other and ensure that every pie, every anna, every paisaa, every rupee is well utilized and doesn’t fall into the corruption black money hole.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Narmada Dam project and Ex Don of gujarat Abdul Latif were great source illegal income for Chiman Chor Patel