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Narmada festival starts in Gujarat
Narmada festival starts in Gujarat
Sunday, February 19, 2006 | AY
As part of 'Year of Tourism', being observed this year, Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 'Narmada Mahotsav' at Kevadia colony in the backdrop of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam on the Narmada near Madhya Pradesh border. The five-day festival has been jointly sponsored by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNL), Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited (TCGL) and Gujarat Tribal Welfare Department. Mr Modi said he wished to develop the dam site, its huge reservoir as a place of tourist interest. The dam has reached a height of 110.64 metres, generating power with surplus water reaching distant Kutch through the main canal of the river. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNL) is executing the inter-state multi-purpose river valley project.
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