Vice-Chairman of Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) Avani Vaish has said that relocation continues from the areas falling under submergence areas of Sardar Sarovar dam in Badwani, Dhar, Alirajpur and Khargone districts.
Cent per cent affected families from 26 villages of Alirajpur and 10 villages of Khargone district have been relocated completely.
Vaish, in a statement said that some elements are spreading misleading information among the people regarding submergence and the affected families. “It is being spread that the affected villages are 192 and the affected families are 36,000, which is totally false,” he said, adding that factually, there are 178 villages of Badwani, Dhar, Alirajpur and Khargone districts that are partially affected with the submergence.
These villages include- 77 from Dhar, 65 from Badwani, 26 from Alirajpur and 10 from Khargone. The number of affected families in them is 23,614. Out of them, 5,551 families have shifted to Gujarat and out of remaining 18,063 families, 12,577 families have already been relocated.
In present situation, 7,010 families from 37 villages of Dhar district and 34 villages from Badwani districts are yet to be relocated. Vaish informed that the dam would be filled in different phases. Notably, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh CHouhan has sanctioned a package of Rs 5.80 lakh per affected family, besides arrangements for temporary houses to the affected families without possessing houses. Among the affected families remaining to be relocated, 2,10 families already own houses and the announced of package would cost Rs 900 crore to the State Government. (See P3)