Narmada bachao andolan or save Narmada movement is a Non governmental Organisation (NGO) that mobilised tribal , people , farmers , environmentalists and Human Rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river in Gujarat . It originally focused on the environmental issues related to trees that would be submerged under the dam water . Recently it has the re-focused the aim to enable poor citizens especially the oustees ( displaced people ) to get full rehabilitation facilities from the government .
People felt that their suffering would not be in vain.... accepted the trauma of displacement believing in the promise of irrigated fields and plentiful harvests so often the survivors of Rihand told us that they accepted their sufferings as sacrifice for the sake of their Nation but now after 30 years of being adrift their livelihood having even being more precarious they keep asking . "Are we the only ones chosen to make sacrifices for the nation"?
