Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam

The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam on the Narmada river near Navagam, Gujarat in India. Four Indian states, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra and Rajasthan, receive water and electricity supplied from the dam. The foundation stone of the project was laid out by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on April 5, 1961. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. The dam was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi on September 17, 2017
Narmada Dam or Sardar Sarovar Dam, as known locally, is a gravity dam built across the Narmada river near Navagam in Gujarat. The dam is a part of the Narmada Valley Project, a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams over the Narmada River. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity.
Soon after the project started in 2006, social activist Medha Patkar started The Narmada Jal Satyagraha in Madhya Pradesh opposed increasing the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, which resulted in the destruction of villages. She had raised concerns about the tribes, who were to be displaced from their homes, without a concrete rehabilitation plan in place.
Gujarat remains the greatest intended beneficiary of the Narmada project after Madhya Pradesh in terms of increased irrigation; and after Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in hydroelectricity. However, the bulk of the displaced along the Narmada river are in Madhya Pradesh, with the project’s ambit of 30 dams. The Sardar Sarovar dam (commonly referred to as the Narmada dam) in Gujarat near its border with Maharashtra is the biggest. Modi at the time was insistent that the height of this dam be raised to 121.92 metres.