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Omkareshwar
Supreme Court allows canal work
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2010
THE Supreme Court has allowed the Madhya Pradesh government to resume construction of canal networks of Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dam projects on the Narmada. On February 25, the court overturned the state high court order that halted the work following a petition by activist Medha Patkar. She had demanded work should resume only after Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) clears the plan for afforesting and treating the river’s catchment area.
SC orders land compensation
@KumarSambhav_S Issue Date: May 31, 2010
Families that lost 60 per cent or more land to canal construction for the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dam projects in Khandwa and Khargone districts of Madhya Pradesh should be given cultivable land as compensation, the Supreme Court has ordered. In doing so, the court acknowledged the rights of families affected by canal construction as a category separate from those affected by dam reservoir submergence.
The drowning of biodiversity
Issue Date: Oct 15, 1994
A RECENT environment impact assessment (EIA) report on the Narmada Sagar Project (NSP), one of the largest dams in the Narmada valley development project to be located in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, claims that it could wipe out many species of flora and fauna.
