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Narayanan concerned over large river valley projects

President K R Narayanan Wednesday voiced serious concern over large river valley projects uprooting tribals and causing them untold miseries.

In an apparent reference to the Narmada Valley project, whose opponents have petitioned him for intervention, he said in his address to the nation on the Republic Day eve that only through enlightened development policies the country could resolve dilemmas of development.

"But the development path that we have adopted is hurting them (the tribals) and threatening their very existence," he said.

The President said: "Let it not be said by future generations that the Indian Republic has been built on the destruction of the green earth and the innocent tribals who have been living there for centuries."

PTI

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