The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
DIGVIJAY SINGH Do you think environment is Important? It is very important because the survival and quality of human life depends on how we handle am environment. How will you link envirolmem with development? The relationship between Human beings and the environment has been damaged and that is why there …
: small king, a small portfolio', was the popular reaction in 1985 when Digvijay Singh became irrigation minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP). For the next five years, the civil engineer-turned-politician advocated small dams in agriculture. "He was speaking the language of the villagers who traditionally irrigate their land through small …
THE first South Asia Public Hearing on Large Dams scheduled to be held on September 21-22, has been postponed. The hearing, organised by the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was postponed on the request of the Planning Commission which said it was not the right time for such a hearing …
THE people of the Narmada valley will have to wait for some more time for justice Their case at the Supreme Court has been pending for three decades. Besides, Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel has successfully convinced Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee that the World Commission on Dam's scheduled visit …
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the state government, the Gandhinagar district collector and the managing collector of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Corporation seeking to show cause as to why a public interest litigation filed by the Jan Sangharsh Manch, a local organisation, in …
This article discusses how the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is a case of a development project which causes environmental displacement on a massive scale. This occurs through the impairment of livelihoods by environmental changes. The problems of resettlement and rehabilitation are emphasized in the article as are further displacement …
The Supreme Court (SC) has turned down for immediate consideration, pleas by the Union Government and the state of Gujarat for permission to increase the height of the Narmada dam from the present 81.5 metre (m) to 85 m. The SC declined to entertain two applications placed by the latter, …
y k alagh, minister of state for planning, has appealed to the people of Gujarat to create strong public opinion to declare the Sardar Sarovar Project (ssp) a national project. Delivering a memorial lecture in Ahmedabad, Alagh expressed serious concern over the delay in the construction of the main dam. …
the controversy over the Sardar Sarovar Project has turned extremely murky over the last fortnight as the bureaucracy kept up a strange game. First, on July 16, it got the chief ministers (cm) of the four contending states - Madhya Pradesh (mp), Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, to sign a "consensus …
on july 16, the chief ministers of the four states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan agreed in a meeting called by the Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda that the "construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam may proceed, limiting the full reservoir level (frl) to 436 feet (ft) at …
The construction work on the Sardar Sarovar dam has been delayed further. The Supreme Court of India ruled on March 12, that there shall be no further construction of the spillway portion of the controversial dam till the concerned states, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh iron out their differences on the …
THE Supreme Court will resume the hearing of the comprehensive writ petition against the Sardar Sarovar Project on January 24. Significantly, the petitioners, Narmada Bachao Andolan and the state of Madhya Pradesh managed to get some assurances from the Centre during the last hearing, which was adjourned on December 7, …
THE latest figures of the oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project (ssp) show that relief and rehabilitation (R&R;) has almost come to a standstill. In the last 14 months since June 1994, the Gujarat government has been able to resettle just 94 families from all the three states of Gujarat, …
THE Sardar Sarovar dam on Narmada river has been exposed to more damages, according to a press release by Narmada Bachao Andolan. More than 15,000 cubic megatonnes (cu mt) of cement has been washed away in addition to an indefinite number of foundation rocks. A substantial section of the sloping …
Jain TV has telecast at least 20 times a documentary on the anti-Narmadadam movement, The valley refuses to die. Then, Jeremy Perflot's series, Save the Earth, first shown in 1992, is being re-telecast on BBC in Time Out. It seems the popular channels are running dry of environmental ideas. It's …
The book claims to be a "counter-factual" rebuke to the critics of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). But both the claim and the title of the book are misleading. First, in 5 short pages, the book devotes itself predominantly to the command areas and glosses over the submergence and downstream …
THE World Bank's (WB) "project completion report" for the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river has cast a shadow over the project's future. India's unimpressive track record in operations and maintenance, says the report, is responsible for the uncertainty. India has borrowed US $151.5 million from the WB …
The Punjab state government will be constituting a Punjab Gujjar Welfare Advisory Board, says chief minister Beant Singh. The newly-elected Maharashtra government said that it would review Enron's Dabhol power project not to be cleared "at the cost of the people". The National Hydro Power Corp (NHPC) plans to promote …
COME state elections -- to be held on February 20 and 25 -- in Gujarat and all political parties promise unstinted support to the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). This despite the fact that the ambitious scheme continues to sink into controversy over rehabilitation and technical issues. Even Prime Minister P …
THE Review Committee on the Sardar Sarovar Project, instead of taking a principled stand and rejecting the extremely limited frame of reference set by the government, produced a report that was indicted by the Supreme Court in January for being "vague" and "ambiguous". The convenor of the committee, Planning Commission …
