Work finished on controversial dam
India completed construction of a $7.7-billion dam that environmental groups say will uproot the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Authorities hailed the completion of the Sardar Sarovar Project in the Narmada Valley of Gujarat state nearly two decades after the dam was begun. They called it an answer to thirst and irrigation and power needs of millions in the nation’s vast, parched west.
Environmentalists say the dam will displace 320,000 people, many of them poor tribal farmers, and disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands more.
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