Why did the World Bank pull out then?
Well, you know there were reasons because, probably at that point of time this had become a little bit of a controversial issue. But you know, let me just mention here that, over all these years, the kind of issues that have been raised against this project, you know the anti-Narmada people, have been shifting and changing their stands from time to time. See at one point of time they were talking about environment and ecology, they said “Oh! You are going to lose so many trees and this and that. The Government of Gujarat and the SSP project people insured that they grew far more numbers of trees, so that argument got washed out. Then the second thing they started talking about was rehabilitation. Now on the rehabilitation issue let me tell you, perhaps those who have seen the actual rehabilitation taking place would agree that this is one of the finest rehabilitation packages ever offered for any dam project. And therefore, even on that aspect they didn’t even have much to say. And as
