Sardar Sarovar Dam

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The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River near the town of Kevadia, in Narmada District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. The dam was constructed to provide water and electricity to the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundation of the project on 5 April 1961. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme funded by the World Bank through their International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity, using a loan of US$200 million. The construction of the dam began in 1987, but the project was stalled by the Supreme Court of India in 1995, in the backdrop of Narmada Bachao Andolan, over concerns of displacement of people. In 2000–01, the project was revived but with a lower height of 111 meters under directions from the Supreme Court, which was later increased to 123 meters in 2006, and 139 meters...

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