Drowned Out
The Narmada Dam is supposedly being built to provide water and electricity for a large part of the population that has been experiencing a devastating drought. However, at the same time as helping some people, the reservoir has covered up villages where people have lived for hundreds of generations. A large canal system has been built as well that is pushing people off of there own land. The government that has been behind the project the entire time has promised to relocate the 16 million people who have been adversely affected by the dam, and they see the dam as progress for the greater good while villagers see it as their entire family's home and are tied to the land by much more than farmland.
The relocation program set up by the government doesn't seem to be working very well either. There simply isn't enough land for all of the people being relocated, especially considering that most of them are self-sufficient farmers which requires land of a certain......

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Title: Narmada Dam
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