The 12-member team of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) , which was to visit Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to examine the controversial narmada project later this month, has cancelled its proposed visit to the Sardar Sarovar project area in Gujarat. The chairman of WCD and minister of water affairs and forestry, republic of South Africa, professor Kader Asman, in a letter to Gujarat chief minister, Keshubhai Patel, on September 4, said the visit to the dam site in Gujarat on September 17 has been cancelled unless an official invitation was extended to the team of the WCD.