  the sardar sarovar dam is a gravity dam on the narmada river near navagam, gujarat in india. it is the largest dam and part of the narmada valley project, a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the narmada river. the project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. one of the 30 dams planned on river narmada, sardar sarovar dam (ssd) is the largest structure to be built. following a number of controversial cases before the supreme court of india (1999, 2000, 2003), by 2014 the narmada control authority had approved a series of changes in the final height &ndash; and the associated displacement caused by the increased reservoir, from the original  to a final  from foundation
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