ABSTRACT
The Sardar Sarovar Project is part of a gigantic scheme seeking to build more than 3,000 dams, including 30 big dams, on Narmada. It may be argued that the emergence of NGOs sensitive to actual needs of the Project Affected Persons has changed the political process of empowering the poor. The R and R policy of the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSP) has subdivided the implementation plan into a relocation plan and a resettlement plan. The relocation policy of SSP is one of the best in the country. But this policy, as has been reported earlier, was accepted by the Government of Gujarat after a prolonged struggle. About 20 per cent of all the relocated households feel that their land quality is not adequate and needs mechanical or chemical treatment. The trends of crop diversification as observed after relocation reveal a shift from subsistence farming towards high value crop production for markets.
