The Narmada is the largest west flowing river on the Indian peninsula.
The Narmada wind's itself 1.312 km long words to the Arabian sea through lovely forested hills rich agricultural plains and narrow Rocky gorgeous in a series of falls.
More than twenty one millions people live in the Valley , mostly in villages .
Many tribal groups .
Such as the Bhils and the gonds occupied the forested uplands.
The Narmada valley is the site of one of the world largest multipurpose water project , the Narmada river Development project which involves the construction of thirty large dams and many small ones on the river and it's fifty one main tributaries .
The project will transform the valley and lives of its residency and will increase food production and hydropower generation in Gujarat , Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra .
The construction of dam and reservoirs will displace an estimated one million people and will submerged 3,50, 000 hectares of forest land and 2,00,000 hectares of agricultural land .
The sardar sarovar dam in Gujarat , which is facing major opposition from tribal groups that hunt and collect foregoing in the jungle canyon and from villagers who are being displaced by the inundation from the reservoir , which will submerged almost 40,000hecyares of land and 250 villagers
The movement uses various tools of protest such as satyagraha ,Jal samarpan, Rastaroko , Gaonbandn demonstration and rallies hunger strikes and blockade of project.
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