U.N. official calls for halt to Narmada dam work

  • 10/12/2000

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing appointed by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Miloon Kothari, has called for immediate moratorium to any further increase in the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat in view of the violations of the rights of those displaced by the dam in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.