More pictures from the demonstration.....

The Sardar Sarovar dam reached 110.64 mts in July 2004. Designed to generate 1450 MW of power at its full design height of 138.6 mts, the dam was 80% complete and had the capacity to generate 1000 MW. However since then, the dam has only generated 2162 MU of electricity corresponding to an average power of just 150 MW in the 20 months from July 2004 to February 28, 2006. While the dam was hurried to 110.64 mts without rehabilitating the displaced people, the power houses were not completed, just as the irrigation canals lie incomplete and Kutch still awaits its irrigation water. The Supreme Court on March 15, 2005 in fact found that the rehabilitation was severely lagging while the dam was taken to 110.64 mts and ordered that further construction cannot be done until rehabilitation is achieved. Today with 35,000 families not rehabilitated, the dam is being further pushed ahead, blaming thesame people who are sacrificing for our country's development for the delay in power. In fact one needs to investigate why the SSP dam that ought to have generated 1000 MW at 110.64 mts averaged only 150 MW -- in some months such as January and February 2006, it generated over 450 MW showing that it was possible to generate much more power at the same height.