Inaugurating worlds 2nd biggest Dam:by PM Modi
AHMEDABAD:
PM Modi will address a public rally at Dabhoi, regarding associate hour from Ahmedabad.
With few months left for the state assembly elections, the Gujarat BJP has turned the completion of the dam project into an enormous political event. The venue of the event is a few 200 kilometer from Ahmedabad.
The Narmada management Authority had ordered the gates of the Sardar Sarovar Project be shut on June 16 once that the peak of the dam was redoubled from 121.92 metres to 138 metres; storage capability was raised to four.73 million cubic metres (MCM) from the present 1.27 million cubic metres.
The foundation stone for the project was ordered in 1961 and therefore the construction began in 1987.
Over eighteen large integer hectares of land within the state would be benefited with irrigation as Narmada water can flow to over nine,000 villages of Gujarat through a canal network, Sardar Sarovar Nigam restricted (SSNL) officers aforesaid, explaining the paybacks of the project.
While the most and sub canal network work has been completed, work on regarding thirty per cent of minor canals remains current, they said.
The Sardar Sarovar project is that the biggest dam in terms of volume of concrete utilized in it. it's conjointly the second biggest dam within the world once the Grand Coulee Dam within the u. s..
The 1.2-km-long dam, that is 163 metres deep has until date created four,141 large integer units of electricity from its 2 power homes -- stream bed powerhouse associated canal head powerhouse -- with an put in capability of 1,200 MW and 250 MW, severally.
The dam has attained over Rs. 16,000 crore -- quite double the price of its construction, said a government voice. every gate of the dam weighs over 450 tonnes and it takes one hour to shut them. in step with the SSNL officers, the ability generated from the dam would be shared among 3 states -- Madhya Pradesh, geographical region and Gujarat. regarding 57 % of the electricity created from the dam goes to Maharashtra, while Madhya Pradesh gets 27 per cent and Gujarat gets 16 per cent.
The project has been involved in many controversies ever since its stone was ordered. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) diode by social activist Medha Patkar has been complaintive against the project raising many environmental issues. In 1996, the development work was suspended following a keep by the Supreme Court.
Four years later, the development work was resumed once the highest court gave a act for the development work, however with a rider that permission to extend the dam height would be in components once the project-affected-people (PAP) were relocated or remunerated.
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