Saturday Morning.
Got this from Venkat, my valet! He in turn got it from Wikipedia.
The Narmada Dam Project, known officially as the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), is a project involving the construction of a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Narmada River in India. The project was first conceived of in the 1940s by the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The project only took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. The Narmada dam is India's most controversial dam project and its environmental impact and net costs and benefits are widely debated. The Narmada Dam has been the center of controversy and protest since the late 1980s.
Local protests taking the form of a genuine peoples movement, known as the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) have been led by Medha Patkar. The World Bank was a funder of the SSP, but withdrew after an independent review in 1990. Indian writer Arundhati Roy has protested the Narmada Dam project.
And now Amir Khan also lends support to this.
I also know that Medha Patkar does not have the courage to visit Gujarat anymore.
This is the difference between China and India. This is a classic example.
Yeah so what is the point I am making on a Saturday Morning? As a Sardarji Economist Honest Prime Minister, I am hapless in this!
I think our worry that Muslims will take to the streets after the bomb blasts in unfounded. I have never heard the Imam of Jama Masjid in such a politically correct mode.
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