India’s Environment India's government is attempting to improve the environment. Narmada Valley Project will build 30 big dams and about 3,200 small dams which are meant to irrigate millions of acres of dry farmland and provide electric power for thousands.
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India’s Environment Others feel that the dams will flood fertile lands and flood many sacred shrines and will displace approximately 1.5 million people from their land in three states (Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh). The government has also attempted to preserves the environment by limiting limestone quarrying because it destroys forests and damages farmland.
Narmada Valley Project India’s Environment Narmada Valley Project