Explain ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’?
Answer:
- Save Narmada Movement is a Non-Governmental Organisation.
- It mobilised tribal people, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, being built across the Narmada river in Gujarat.
- It focused on the environmental issues related to trees that would be submerged under the dam water.
- Recently, it has refocused its aim to rehabilitate displaced people.