Parban Dam Project (परवन परियोजना) is an under construction dam project on the Parban River in the

Jhalawar District Jhalawar district is one of the 50 districts of Rajasthan state in western India. The historical city of Jhalawar is the administrative headquarters of the Jhalawar district. The district is bounded on the northwest by Kota district, on the n ...

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. Construction began in December 2017, after receiving approval by then

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Vasundhara Raje Vasundhara Raje Scindia (born 8 March 1953) is an Indian politician, who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small ...

. The dam to be built 120 km from Kota town in Akawad village of Jhalawar district was likely to submerge 10,000 hectares (ha), including more than 1,600 ha of forestland. The union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) granted environmental clearance to the project in November, 2011. The clearance letter states the dam will completely submerge 17 villages and partially inundate 30 villages, affecting over 3,000 families including 461 tribal families.
The dam capacity of this project is 490 million cubic metre. After completion, 317 million cubic metres of water will be available for irrigation. Along with irrigation, this project will also provide 50 million cubic metres of water to quench thirst of 1,821 villages of Baran, Jhalawar and Kota districts. The thermal power generation of 2,970 MW will be achieved with 79 million cubic metre of the project.

History

Since long before 1980 people of the

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and

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were demanding a river canal for agriculture. There were many peaceful demonstration on many occasion on different places. Since the 2014 political parties started to accuse each other for ignoring peoples long time demand after many ups and down dream project came to limelight in political scenario. Many local leaders and old leaders like Ex. MLA Nandlal Meena submit demand letter for dam to CM Vasundhara Raje. To make Parban Water Project a

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in October 2016 CM Raje went delhi to meet Union Minister

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. On 15 December 2017 Raje laid the foundation stone of the Parwan Dam Project.

Investment

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, HCC as a lead partner in the joint venture with HSEPL has been awarded Rs 672.99 crore contract on Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) basis for the construction of Parwan Gravity Dam by the Water Resources Department of the Rajasthan government. HCC's share in the JV is 90% or around Rs 605.70 crore.

Construction

Construction of Dam started in December 2018. The completion of the dam expected around May 2021.

Land Acquisition, Displacement and Resettlement

Most of the residential areas in the two districts

and

are on a hillock, while the agricultural land is at a lower altitude. Due to this situation some villages are categorised as partially submerged while their fields and roads are fully inundate.
The land for re-location has been identified at two-three places near

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Environmental issues and Historical Sites

The dam is likely to submerge 10,000 hectares (ha), including more than 1,600 ha of forestland. The state government says the dam will completely submerge 17 villages and partially inundate 30 villages. Residents allege that the government’s definition of complete submergence is skewed. Besides submerging villages, the project will affect

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places of

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value. For example, Kakoni, the eighth century temple in

, which was declared protected by the state archaeological department in 1970.

References

External links

{{Hydrography of Rajasthan Dams in Rajasthan