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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1024443807
Times of India, Dec. 7, 2001
Gujarat will need to resettle 1,597 families
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
GANDHINAGAR: A staggering number of 1,597 project affected families - 1,217
in Madhya Pradesh, 363 in Gujarat and 17 in Maharashtra - would need to be
resettled even in case the Gujarat government agrees for a compromise to
take the Narmada dam to 95 metres instead of 100 at the next official
meeting of the Narmada Control Authority likely to take place in Delhi in a
few days.
An NCA meeting fixed for December 8, 2001 at the dam site has been postponed
because of the reported preoccupation of its chairman Gopal Reddy, new
secretary, ministry of water
resources, government of India. Yet, the official papers prepared for it
underscore the need for a compromise as a possible solution.
Much against Gujarat's wishes, the dam height is stationary at 90 metres for
the last more than one year. Failure to resettle MP's 3,555 PAFs at the
submergence level of 100 metres has
proved to be a major hurdle for going ahead with the dam construction work
in accordance with the NCA plan. The 100 metres were to be achieved by June
2002, but with so many oustees still not settled, the NCA recognises it is
an impossible task.
In search of a compromise therefore, the document 'Agenda for the 51st
Meeting of the R&R Sub-group of the NCA to be Held at Kevadia Dam Site on
8th December', distributed for the now postponed meet to the
three participating states insisted that the three state governments inform
the NCA what progress had been made "for the R&R of balance at EL 95 metres,
who have responded and willing to resettle in home state or
Gujarat."
The NCA is the highest decision-making body for finalising all controversial
issues related with dam height and resettlement of oustees ever since the
Supreme Court cleared the stay on dam construction last year.
The new date of the NCA meeting has not been finalised, but would conveyed
to the state in a week.
The "agenda" document insists that each state give "the status of R&R of the
project-affected families who are not responding", tell about the
preparedness of the states to resettle
balance PAFs, with Madhya Pradesh particularly informing the NCA the status
the following:
* Procurement of land (private or government) to be given to oustees; *
Development of available suitable land; * Development of required R&R sites
at EL 95 metres; * Status of land acquisition awards in both the
agricultural land and habitation in submergence villages of MP at EL 95
metres.
The issue whether the dam could be taken to 95 metres by June 2002 instead
of 100 as planned came up for discussion during the last inter-state meeting
of the NCA held on November 16 this year in Delhi.
There it was found that to take the dam height to 95 metres pari passu with
resettlement as ordered by the Supreme Court, as many as 1,580 MP oustee
families remained to be settled.
Add to this 17 oustee families from Maharashtra, the total figure reaches
1,597. The number is much less than the submergence level of 100 metres, yet
not an easy one to manage.
There it was made known that the total number of PAFs at 95 metres dam
submergence level is 9,864 belonging to 110 villages. Out of these, 5,397
belong to 70 MP villages, 1,700 belong to 26 Maharashtra
villages, and 2,767 belong to 14 Gujarat villages. Of these, 5,847 have
resettled in Gujarat, 1,021 in Maharashtra and 1,399 in MP.
The Kevadia NCA meet will examine what could happened to the remaining
balance 1,597, mainly from MP, at a time when MP has officially declared it
has "paucity of cultivable government land" and "it is very
difficult to arrange more land for the oustees." The situation has got
complicated also because increasing number of PAFs are allegedly unwilling
to come to Gujarat from MP to resettle.
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