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Modi in his address during Sardar Saravor Dam inauguration mainly targeted academics, activists, and the World Bank

Apropos “PM inaugurates Sardar Saravor Dam; calls it engineering marvel” (September 18), the controversial project on the Narmada, the largest and most expensive such project in the country, is considered by many environmentalists, academics, economists and activists as the largest planned ecological disaster. Though its proponents claimed it as the most studied river valley project, comprehensive environmental impact assessment had not reportedly been done. Besides, major conditionality set down by the Ministry of Environment and Forests have allegedly been unheeded.

The prime minister in his address mainly targeted academics, activists, and the World Bank. From the very inception of the dam,