The forest is being cleared for approach roads, offices, and residential quarters and for storage of construction material for the construction of dams. With the reduction in forest cover and the entry of people, the pressure on the remaining forest increases. Their need for firewood leads to further denudation. There is a recurring loss in terms of timber and firewood yield per year and degradation of environment.
Case study:182 villages in Madhya Pradesh will be affected due to the construction of reservoir while dam is in Gujarat. 60 to 80 thousand people will be displaced. It is believed that larger areas of Gujarat will be irrigated and many more thousands of people will be benefited by Sardar Sarovar dam. But people of Madhya Pradesh had to make sacrifices out of which many of them are ancient tribals.
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