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Keywords: Nisarpur, Rehabilitation

Sardar Sarovar Dam: The Narmada Bachao movement has been agitating against raising the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam.

Now Narmada Bachao Andolan activists claim the people displaced by the project are not being rehabilitated properly. And the locals too are unhappy with the government's arrangement.

Displaced families from the nearby Nisarpur village numbering 890 have been rehabilitated but feel that the compensation they are getting is not adequate.

The government has announced a rehabilitation package between Rs 20,000 to Rs 1 lakh. They also say the land allotted to them is in low-lying areas, which will get flooded once it rains.

"Ye dhang se nahi kiya gaya hai. Inhone bola tha ki teen mahine mein pura kaam ker degnge, nali ban jayegi. Kuch nahi bana hai, Plot mein paani ghusela hai (Nothing has been done properly. We were told that everything would be completed in three months. Nothing has been done. The plot is flooded with water)," a villager Yogesh Nanvani says.

CNN-IBN has discovered that most of the plots allotted do not even have proper drainage facilities.

Moreover, shopkeepers and traders have not been allotted plots to set up their businesses. The villagers say they were not consulted before land was allotted to them.

"Bhari bhrastachari ke saath mein inhone jaise taise kaam ker diya (The work has been done improperly because of corruption)," another villager Kailash Chand Gupta says.

Fearing monsoon spells the height of the dam has only been increased to 119 metres but post monsoons it would be increased up to 121.91 metres.

That means the water span behind the dam could increase from 100 square kms to 214 square kms.

The question is, is the rehabilitation work catching up with the pace of developmental work at the sight.