Sardar Sarovar Project is typical case of a project which is in troubled waters due to lack of Eco friendliness. Two official reports of the Jayant Patil Committee and the Safety Planet which have strongly criticised several aspects of the Sardar Sarovitl. Project have come as a shot in the arm for the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
The Dam safety panel confirmed the news that the stilling basins at the base of the d'm were seriously damaged in September 1994.
One of the major problem of this project is that the people displaced were nor rehabilitated properly. A report by a six member all party team of Madhya Pradesh MLAs which was placed on the floor of the state assembly on December 14th, stated that the rehabilitation sites were waterlogged amenity-less, barren waste fallow land. The report also painted out that even though the rehabilitation master plan for the ousters in Madhya Prades,h was supposed to have been completed by 1981, as required by the Narmatla Waters Dispute Tribunal (NWDT) award, even till 1995 such a plan had not been finalized.
The Patil Committee report also draws attention to several groups of people who will he affected in the project but who have not been listed as "Project Affected Persons (PAP)". These includes those to be displaced by the canal network, the downstream this placement, those affected by the backwater effect, those who will have to move to make way for compensatory afforestation and catchment area treatment and finally those who will he affected when forest land, for instance is released for the displaced. Among its recommendations, the committee suggested that each state should appoint. an ombudsman, who can address the grievances of PAPS would non-governmental organisations working with them. This case study is thus example to show their unless systematic effort to deal with environmental issues at the inception stage itself. thcre will surely be problems in the future.
Projects Requiring Environmental Clearance from the Central Government
Under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1986, in 1994 expansion or sensationalist of sly activity if pollution load is to exceed the existing one, of new project listless in schedule , shall not be undertaken in any part of India unless it has been accorded environmental clearance by the central government in accordance with the procedure stipulated.
Projects Requiring Environmental Clearance from the Central Government
Under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1986, in 1994 expansion or sensationalist of sly activity if pollution load is to exceed the existing one, of new project listless in schedule , shall not be undertaken in any part of India unless it has been accorded environmental clearance by the central government in accordance with the procedure stipulated.
The list of projects requiring environmental clearance are as follows :
- Nuclear Power & related projects such as Heavy Water Plants, Nuclear fuel complex rare earths
- River valley projects including Hydel power, Major irrigation aid their combination including flood control
- Ports/Harbor, Airports (except minor ports & Harbours)
- Petroleum Refineries including crude & product pipelines
- Chemical fertilizers (nitrogenous and photostatic) other than single super phosphate.
- Pesticides (Technical).
- Petrochemical complexes
- Bulk drugs and pharmaceuticals
- Exploration for nil and gas and their production, transportation storage
- Synthetic Rubber
- Asbestos and Asbestos Products
- Hydrodynamic acid and its derivatives
- (a) Primary metallurgical Industries (such as Production of iron and steel, aluminum, copper, zinc, lead and ferrous alloys) (b) Electrical .Arc furnaces
- Chlor alkaline Illusory
- Viscose staple seal's and filament yarn
- Integrated Paint complex including manufacture of Resins and basic raw materials required in manufacture of paints
- Storage batteries integrated with manufacture of oxide of lead and lead anti molly, alloy
- All tourism projects between 200-500 metres of high water tide.
- Thermal Power Plants
- Mining Project.
- Highway projects
- Tarred Road in Himalayas and or forest areas
- Distilleries
- Raw skins and Hides
- Pulp, Paper & Newsprint
- Dyes
- Cement
- Foundries
- Electroplating
This major initiative taken personally by the countries Prime Minister will reduce own project overruns to some extent.
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