Affected Population by Sardar Sarovar Dam
Status as on June 12, 2014
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Sl. No. |
State |
Districts |
Total No. of Villages Affected |
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Gujarat |
Narmada District
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19 |
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Maharashtra |
Nandurbar District
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33 |
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Madhya Pradesh |
Badwani, Alirajpur, Dhar and Khargone Districts
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193 |
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Total |
245 villages (in 3 states) |
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Earlier 3 villages in Maharashtra were declared but were later excluded, although they started getting affected later. |
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Total Number of Families affected by the SSP: 51,000 families
MADHYA PRADESH
All those who are in the original – submergence villages at the present dam height due to non-attainment of some or all legal rehabilitation entitlements
Population in the valley (M.P.) at a glance
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Census Year |
No. of Families |
Population |
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2001 |
40,000 families |
2,00,000 people |
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2011 |
48,000 families |
2,40,000 people |
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Resettled in M.P at R&R sites:
Less than 3,000 without alternative land or livelihood
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Resettled in M.P. at R&R sites with alternative land – Less than 30 families:
9 from Village Bhitada in 2000
10 from Village Pichhodi in 2013
10 from Bhadal in 2013
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Category |
No. of PAFs (approx) |
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Those eligible families who are yet to get land, which is their legal entitlement:
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More than
200 families
More than 400 families
3,300 PAFs
At least 1457families
At least 200 |
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Those landless who are yet to get alternative livelihood, whether some grant assistance (supposed to be for 3 years) as per the NVDA Action Plan, 1993 is paid or not paid |
About 48,000 landless persons (in 2011)
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Not received house plots as R&R site and without agricultural land or not adequate to accommodate all from the villages |
Number not certain, but a few thousand families |
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Cases pending before Present Chairman, GRA, Justice S.P. Khare |
1500 (approx) |
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Cases in which orders by GRA are not implemented since last few years |
More than 1,000 |
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Lack of amenities including drainage, drinking water, electricity, approach roads, dispensary functional schools etc. – Inquiry into construction works as per CAG Report is on by Justice Jha Commission water. |
Thousands of families |
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Land Requirement for R&R in M.P. |
More than 10,000 hectares |
GUJARAT
The PAFs from Gujarat are almost 100% adivasis from the hilly communities in Vindhya mountain ranges.
Resettled in Gujarat:
Hundreds have been rehabilitated, but hundreds more at R&R sites are yet to be declared or get some cultivable agricultural land or some other entitlement, as also lack of some amenity at the R&R site.
Families not yet rehabilitated
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Sl. No. |
Category |
No. of PAFs (approx) |
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Still living in the submergence – affected original villages and not having received the R&R entitlements (both declared and undeclared PAFs) |
300 families |
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Declared PAFs, living at the R&R sites but have not received cultivable land and / or house plots |
100 families |
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Declared PAFs, living at the R&R sites but have not received bad land or less land than actual entitlement. |
400 families |
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Undeclared PAFs living at the R&R sites, with complaints of having been excluded from official lists, since many years. |
300 families |
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Total families to be rehabilitated in Gujarat |
1100 families |
MAHARASHTRA
The PAFs from Maharashtra are almost 100% adivasis from the hilly communities in Satpuda Ranges.
Families resettled at the R&R sites: 3,600 families
These include families who have been resettled at the R&R sites but have not been rehabilitated.
Families yet to be rehabilitated
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Sl. No. |
Category |
No. of PAFs (approx) |
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No. of affected families in the original villages (declared as PAFs) who have not received land and or other entitlements. |
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No. of affected families in the original villages yet to be declared – PAFs with complaints pending and investigation approved by authorities. These include adivasis who are yet to get their forest land rights settled, due to which R&R entitlements are yet to be finalized. (proposal pending with the Ministry) |
300 families |
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No. of affected families in the resettlement sites but without full land allotment or allotment of house plots. This includes those families who have been allotted only 1 hectare land and are yet to be allotted another hectare of land (full legal entitlement 2 hectares) |
500 families |
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Families who have not received source of irrigation, as a legal right, at the R&R sites – This is 50% to 100% of adivasi farmers shifted to alternative land. |
90 % of the families
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Total families to be rehabilitated in Maharashtra |
1100 families |
Requirement for R&R: Total requirement of land in Maharashtra for rehabilitation is almost 3,000 hectares.