Dabhoi
\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated to the nation the Sardar Sarovar Dam, which he called \u201can engineering marvel\u201d. The dam on the Narmada took 56 years to be completed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo project in the world, perhaps, has faced so many controversies as the Narmada project,\u201d he said, accusing \u201cso-called\u201d environmentalists the world over of creating hurdles. \u201cBut it was the determination of the people of Gujarat and the cooperation of one and all that ensured the completion of the project, conceived by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1946,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The PM steered away from any political controversy, leaving the task to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who sought to make it an \u201canti-Congress\u201d convention, blaming the party for the \u201cinordinate delay\u201d and giving credit to Modi, first as the CM and now as the PM, for taking the Sardar Sarovar project forward.<\/p>\n
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Claiming that there could not have been a better way of celebrating his 67th birthday, Modi said: \u201cIt will be my biggest birthday gift that millions of farmers who will now get water for irrigation, crores of mothers who will now be spared of walking for miles to fetch drinking water, and the mute animals who will get green grass to eat, will bestow blessings on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naming \u201ctwo great personalities\u201d Sardar Patel and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, Modi said had these visionaries lived a few years longer, the Narmada project would have been completed in the Sixties or early Seventies. He refrained from naming Jawaharlal Nehru who laid the foundation stone in 1961.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were determined to complete the project,\u201d Modi said at a rally some 55 km from the dam site in Dabhoi town of Vadodara district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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