Sardar Sarovar Project should be completed to avail of the promised gains | The Indian Express

Sardar Sarovar Project should be completed to avail of the promised gains | The Indian Express

Written by Yoginder K. Alagh |Updated: August 21, 2019 9:13:30 am

The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.

Sardar Sarovar Project should be completed to avail of the promised gains

Gujarat has correctly stated that after the reservoir fills up, if water is still flowing into the dam, the largest main canal of the world will be used to take water to Saurashtra and will fill up the many small dams in the plateau. This was modelled as a benefit of the project in the original blueprint of the SSP in 1984.

There is some urgency to getting back to the original design configuration of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project plan.

The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project (SSP) is showing substantial benefits although it has not been implemented the way it was designed. Activist NGOs agitated against closing the gates of the dam because this would flood the backwaters as the reservoir fills up. Some politicians have already given this a political hue although Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has maintained a dignified, studied silence.