REHABILITATION OF AFFECTED PERSONS
OF SARDAR SAROVAR PROJECT
The information provided
to the Narmada Control authority (NCA) by the respective State
Governments the number of families likely to be affected by submergence
at full reservoir level of 138.68 metre of Sardar Sarovar Project
across Narmada river are to the tune of 3221 in Maharashtra; 33,014
in Madhya Pradesh; and 4728 in Gujarat.
The Resettlement
& Rehabilitation (R&R) of the Project Affected Families
(PAFs) of the Sardar Sarovar Project is the responsibility of
the State Governments of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Each State Governments have made their own R&R packages which
are better than the entitlement of rehabilitation benefits as
per the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal Award. NCA has approved
an Action Plan for raising the dam height to full level pari-pasu
with the R&R of the PAFs. As per this plan as soon as the
R&R of the PAFs are completed to the satisfaction of the monitoring
agencies, the NCA are pursuing the matter with the State Governments
for early completion of R&R of PAFs as per the approved action
plan. Further, the State Governments are also pursuing for early
completion of the R&R of PAFs upto the full reservoir level
of Sardar Sarovar Dam so as to complete it as early as possible
for raising the dam to full height.
This information
was given by the Union Minister of State for Water Resources,
Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty in a written reply to a question from
Shri Dalpat Singh Parste in the Lok Sabha today.
