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Article: Dam lies: Indian Government refuses to stop drowning homes and villages.
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- New Internationalist
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- June 1, 2006
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IT started as just another VIP visit. With platoons of security guards, fleets of flashing cars and bowing bureaucrats in tow, three Ministers of the Indian Government were sent by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to assess whether villagers submerged by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) - a huge dam on the Narmada river--had been resettled properly.
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So the Ministers made their way from the capital, New Delhi, to Madhya Pradesh in central India, one of the three states affected by the project. The first stop: the red-carpet welcome by Madhya Pradesh's chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He assured them that all project-affected ...