The Narmadâ is a Fleuve (also called Narbadâ ) which runs of is in west in the center of the India. It belongs to the Seven rivers crowned of India.

Dam on its course is the object of very sharp controversies, in particular following a report/ratio of the the World Bank.

Geography

The Narmadâ river forms the traditional limit between the Deccan and the indo-gangetic flat . It takes its source in the Maikal mounts in the state of the Madhya Pradesh. The essence of its course is in this state. It crosses on a few tens of kilometers the state of the Maharashtra then throws in the Indian Ocean in the Golfe of Cambay to the Gujarat (Mer of Arabia).

Main cities

• Jabalpur

• Broach or Baruch
• Omkareshwar

Affluents

Hydrology

The stopping Sardar Sarovar

Sardar Sarovar is a stopping on the Narmadâ river. It is the showpiece of a project having to irrigate 18.000 square kilometres with 75.000 kilometers of channels in what would be largest in the world. This project must also bring drinking water to 40 million people, and produce electricity.

But at least 100.000 people should be moved because of the additional stopping, and 140.000 people because of the channels. In 1985, the World Bank gave its agreement for a loan of 450 million US dollars for this project.

In June 1991, the the World Bank named Bradford Morse, general ex-secretary associated of the United Nations and during ten years (1976-1986), chief of the Development program of the United Nations, to organize an independent study to the measures taken to compensate for the human and environmental effects project Sardar Sarovar. Thomas R. Berger, who directed the study on the pipeline of the valley of Mackenzie (1974-1977) and the commission of study on Alaska (1983-1985) agreed to be director-assistant of this study.

The écrivaine Arundhati Roy adopted the cause of the opponents to the work, undertaken by Medha Patkar and which formed the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the movement Sauvez Narmada ). However, the Indian supreme court declared in 1999 that the project was to be finished and débouté the Narmada Bachao Andolan .

See too

Sources

• Bradford Morse and Thomas Shepherd, Sardar Sarovar, the Carryforward off the Independent Review , Editions The Independent Review, 1992.

External bonds

• Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd., company constructor of the stopping
• Web site of the opponents to the stopping
• Site of Emilie Crémin, master's paper on Narmada and the town of Omkareshwar