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- From: Tom Gray <tgray@igc.apc.org>
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 09:39 PST
- Subject: IPS: India Dam Funds Delayed
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- Title: ENVIRONMENT: Funding meeting for India dam project again delayed
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- washington, oct 21 (ips/jim lobe) -- in a further delay for a key
- meeting to decide the fate of a major dam project in india, the
- world bank's executive directors are to meet here thursday with
- former u.n. development programme chief bradford morse who has
- called on the bank to suspend its participation in the project.
-
- as a result, the thrice-delayed meeting on the bank's continued
- funding of the 12-billion-dollar sardar sardovar projects is now
- scheduled to take place friday.
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- ''we think it's a good sign,'' said laurie udall, staff counsel
- for the environmental defence fund (edf), which has played a key
- role in lobbying against the dam.
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- she added that the directors representing britain, japan, and
- the netherlands -- which have been undecided on the projects --
- could be brought around by morse and the rest of his team of
- independent consultants who are assessing the projects.
-
- the plans for sardar sarovar, which includes the construction
- of 30 large dams and hundreds of smaller ones along the narmada
- river valley, are designed to provide water, irrigation, and more
- electricity to three arid states in western india.
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- the bank, which has already provided 450 million dollars in
- loans for the projects, has been asked to approve a new, 350-
- million-dollar loan by india an the three state governments of
- gujarat, maharashtra, and madhya pradesh.
-
- but the projects, which environmental groups charge ignore the
- area's ecology and the plight of more than 120,000 families
- affected by the construction, have encountered unprecedented
- opposition, both internationally and from the communities which
- face resettlement.
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- last fall, then-bank president barber conable formed an
- unprecedented independent review committee headed by morse to look
- into the situation and make recommendations.
-
- in june, morse submitted a 363-page report which concluded that
- the projects ''as they stand are flawed'' and warned that
- ''resettlement and rehabilitation of all those displaced are not
- possible under prevailing circumstances and (their) environmental
- impacts have not been properly considered or adequately
- address
- (story received incomplete)
- p063
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