Question

Read the given extract and answer the following questions.

Narmada Bachao Andolan or Save Narmada Movement is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that mobilized tribal people, farmers, environmentalists, and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river in Gujarat. It originally focused on the environmental issues related to trees that would be submerged under the dam water. Recently it has re-focused the aim to enable poor citizens, especially the oustees (displaced people) to get full rehabilitation facilities from the government. People felt that their suffering would not be in vain… accepted the trauma of displacement believing in the promise of irrigated fields and plentiful harvests. So, often the survivors of Rihand told us that they accepted their sufferings as sacrifices for the sake of their nation. But now, after thirty bitter years of being adrift, their livelihood even more precarious, they keep asking: “Are we the only ones chosen to make sacrifices for the nation?”

1. With what objective ‘Sardar Sarovar Dam’ was built?
2. Analyse the reason for the protest by the tribal people.
3. Highlight the issues on which the ‘Save Narmada Movement’ worked.

Answer 1

1. i. To secure power
   ii. Irrigation
   iii. for the area that is prone to drought, drinking water.
2. i. Huge displacement of people
   ii. Demand for rehabilitation
   iii. Harm of harvest
   iv. Loss of livelihood.
3. i. Against huge displacement of people.
   ii. Environmental issue
   iii. Demand for rehabilitation of tribal.
   iv. To provide tribal the source of livelihood.