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What is Sardar Sarovar Project? Which benefits are expected to be if the project becomes successful? Also state the issues of rehabilitation and relocation associated with it.

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While trying to forge and retain unity in diversity in India, there are many difficult issues which are yet to be tackled. Describe any three such areas of tension.

Answer:

Sardar Sarovar Project is an ambitious developmental project launched in the Narmada Valley. It?s a mega dam project consisting of 30 big dams, 135 medium dams and around 3000 small dam to be constructed in Madhya

Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Benefits:

(i) Water for irrigation.

(ii) Generation of electricity.

(iii) Help to control flood and drought, (any two to be explained)

Issues: About 245 villages have been affected and people belonging to these villages have to be relocated and rehabilitated.

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(i) Areas of tension in the way of retaining unity in diversity. The issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Some issues of North East about which there was no consensus about them being a part of India or not. Strong movements in Nagaland and Mizoram demanding separation from India.

(ii) Mass agitations in many parts for the formation of new state on the basis of language.

(iii) First phase of nation building was not enough.

New challenges came up in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttrakhand.