Sardar Sarovar Dam

The Sardar Sarovar Dam is in news because Medha Patkar has been on hunger strike for the last 8 days against the increase in height of the dam on Narmada river. It is said that increase in height of the dam will improve the irrigation conditions in many draught stricken villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It will also provide clean way of generating electricity. But the people from Narmada Bachao Andolan say that increase in height will cause complete destruction of the land and homes of the people who dwell around the banks of the river, moreover the Govt. of India has not been able to rehabilitate each and every displaced people.
Well it seems that the Dam will come as a boon to many but will be a bane to tribals and villagers who have been living at the banks of the Narmada river since a long time.
Government should first provide complete rehabilitation to the people who are going to be displaced due to the dam and only then it should think about increasing the height of the dam.
Dams are really effective in solving the electricity and irrigation needs of the people but this should not come at the price of people who lose everything in this trade off. Development is must and so is the use of technology but both of them should go hand in hand with humanity.