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dam-l LS: Gujarat Govt. ignores Digvijay's outburst
[THE HINDU]
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
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Gujarat Govt. ignores Digvijay's outburst
Date: 17-02-1999 :: Pg: 10 :: Col: a
By Our Special Correspondent
GANDHINAGAR, Feb. 16.
The Gujarat Government has refused to make an issue out of the
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh's recent
outburst demanding lowering of the height of the Sardar
[Image] Sarovar dam on the Narmada river.
The BL
MODE Describing Mr. Singh's statement on the issue as ``uncalled
Survey on for'' when the Supreme Court was seized of the matter, a
Teenagers senior official of the Narmada Affairs Department in the State
said ``we will prefer to ignore Mr. Singh's outburst.''
The Gujarat Government had no problem in acceding to the M.P.
Government's earlier demand for a hydrological review of the
dam after reaching the height of 436 ft. The Narmada Affairs
Minister, Mr. Jaynarayan Vyas, is confident that the demand
for hydrological review at 436 ft. neither constitutes any
change in the dam profile, nor poses any threat to the State's
consistent stand of honouring the Narmada Tribunal's award of
dam height at 455 ft.
According to Mr. Vyas, the records available for the last 10
years had proved that hydrological review of four out of five
years show the Narmada flow at over 27 million acre ft. of
water and the M.P. Government's demand for review of three out
of five years would surely justify Gujarat's stand. He
maintained that Mr. Singh's claim of reduction in Narmada flow
to less than 23 million acre ft. to justify reduction in the
dam height was erroneous.
But contrary to the Union Textile Minister, Mr. Kashiram
Rana'a angry reaction to Mr. Singh's statement, the State
Narmada Department was in no mood to issue a rejoinder to the
M.P. Chief Minister. The official pointed out that even in the
Supreme Court the advocate for the M.P. Government had pointed
out that the State was not demanding less than 436 ft. height
including the 55 ft. dam gates. The State Government presumed
that Mr. Singh's talk of 382 ft. dam height must be excluding
the gates to which ``we have no problem.'' The State
Government, however, is in no mood to concede a fresh tribunal
to decide the height as demanded by Mr. Singh. ``The
tribunal's award is binding on all the concerned States and
valid for 45 years,'' Mr. Vyas maintained.
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