Sardar Sarovar Dam Case Study
so their main intention becomes securing their funds for building more dams rather than looking after the welfare of the society. This justifies the enthusiasm of bureaucracies of the Sardar Sarovar dam project to continue the project despite intense criticism from all around. The bureaucrats join the bank, and the banker come as a project consultant. Finally, they will rechannel the money that comes as “ development aid” in developing countries back to the same countries where they come from in the name of consultant fees, salaries for the agency's own staff (Roy 1999). In the case of Sardar Sarovar dam, there was a tie with the Japanese donor company to buy the big turbines for the project from this company in return for its aid.
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The institution of educating engineers about the importance of dams, and thus having poor knowledge about the socio-economic and ecological impacts of dams create problem in selecting the project. Further, the consultants are generally aware that if they continuously criticize their clients project, they will run out of their job very soon. In addition to it, they have much higher incentives for approving the project than recommending that the project should not go ahead. In case the project turns out to be disastrous, it is the local people who have to pay heavy prices, and not the experts. They will already have received their enumeration a long ago and moved on to other projects. The institutions in India are still not so strong as to make the experts responsible for the disaster, while comparing the post construction situation and what they had predicted before. The experts had predicted that the number of displaced people will be around 100000. But, the real number has now grown to about 50 million, which is vastly higher than their prediction (Roy 1999). Similarly, the claim of the government to generate 1450 MWT power from the Sardar Sarovar dam is over ambitious. The plan of government to generate power, irrigate the fields, and controlling floods are all contradictory. If the government is to carry on these purposes simultaneously, it will end up producing only 50 MWT power …show more content…
Patterns of interactions
The various actors have different interests, which make them interact differently that may result into conflict and ultimately turn to bad outcomes. Most of their interactions have already been covered in the section 7.3. However, some other types of interactions are covered in this section. It happens quite often that the regime is unable to foster coordinated action in the given setting of the actors, resource attributes and technology. It is difficult to execute the law in a country like India, where every actor has their definite interests, and the infection of corruption is everywhere among the bureaucrats, construction companies, technical experts, politicians, environmental consultants, and aid agencies. Politicians help construction companies get the contract of the project in return to large amounts of money, and bureaucrats help them with the legal formalities. Other actors: technical experts and environmental consultants too get mixed in this storm of corruption to protect their jobs. In addition to the interaction of these actors to worsen the fate of the project, we will now try to explore how the government interacts with the states to settle the interstate water
The business …show more content…
The institution of educating engineers about the importance of dams, and thus having poor knowledge about the socio-economic and ecological impacts of dams create problem in selecting the project. Further, the consultants are generally aware that if they continuously criticize their clients project, they will run out of their job very soon. In addition to it, they have much higher incentives for approving the project than recommending that the project should not go ahead. In case the project turns out to be disastrous, it is the local people who have to pay heavy prices, and not the experts. They will already have received their enumeration a long ago and moved on to other projects. The institutions in India are still not so strong as to make the experts responsible for the disaster, while comparing the post construction situation and what they had predicted before. The experts had predicted that the number of displaced people will be around 100000. But, the real number has now grown to about 50 million, which is vastly higher than their prediction (Roy 1999). Similarly, the claim of the government to generate 1450 MWT power from the Sardar Sarovar dam is over ambitious. The plan of government to generate power, irrigate the fields, and controlling floods are all contradictory. If the government is to carry on these purposes simultaneously, it will end up producing only 50 MWT power …show more content…
Patterns of interactions
The various actors have different interests, which make them interact differently that may result into conflict and ultimately turn to bad outcomes. Most of their interactions have already been covered in the section 7.3. However, some other types of interactions are covered in this section. It happens quite often that the regime is unable to foster coordinated action in the given setting of the actors, resource attributes and technology. It is difficult to execute the law in a country like India, where every actor has their definite interests, and the infection of corruption is everywhere among the bureaucrats, construction companies, technical experts, politicians, environmental consultants, and aid agencies. Politicians help construction companies get the contract of the project in return to large amounts of money, and bureaucrats help them with the legal formalities. Other actors: technical experts and environmental consultants too get mixed in this storm of corruption to protect their jobs. In addition to the interaction of these actors to worsen the fate of the project, we will now try to explore how the government interacts with the states to settle the interstate water