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Sardar Sarovar Dam

Sardar Sarovar Project is a multi purpose interstate project amongst Gujrat,Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The project envisages construction of 138.68 mtr.Long concrete Dam across Narmada River near village Navagaon in Gujrat state. It will generate 1450 M.watt of hydro electric power and will irrigate 17.92 lakh ha.of land in Gujrat State and 0.75 lakh ha. Rajasthan state by means of 460k.m long right bank Canal.

       The Narmada Dam Project is a project involving the construction of a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Narmada River in India. The project was first conceived of in the 1940s by the country's firstprime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The project only took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. Of the thirty large dams planned on river Narmada, Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is the largest multipurpose project involved in the construction.

 With a proposed height of 136.5 m, it's also high on discord between the planners and the Narmada Bachao Andolan. The multi-purpose project will irrigate more than 18,000 square kilometres, most of it in drought prone areas like Kutch and Saurashtra. Critics maintain that its negative environmental impact outweights its benefits.

        A concrete gravity dam, 1210 meters (3970 feet) in length and with a maximum height of 163 meters above the deepest foundation level, is under construction across river Narmada.