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The Sabarmati at night Photo Usha Dewani let us now contrast this picture with the Sabarmati today. For all but 11 kilometres of its 370 kilometer length, the river bed is dry with occasional pools of stagnant water, which, while worsened due to an upstream dam, is not as shocking as it sounds, for the Sabarmati is a seasonal river. Gift City the length that the river flows through Ahmedabad, it is filled with water that has been brought in from the Narmada. When the river exits Ahmedabad, the water exits the river and goes on to irrigate the lands of the rich farmers of Gujarat as part of the controversial Project. Upstream and downstream of the city, and along the banks of the river, are concrete embankments that convert this fragmented river into a large swimming pool. So much for the longitudinal integrity of the river!

Wildlife cannot survive in a concrete box. Fish, birds and aquatic animals require algae and smaller animal’s benthic invertebrates to feed upon. These organisms as well as the larger beings that feed upon them need natural surfaces such as sand, silt, clay and pebbles in which to feed, shelter and breed. All this is denied them in the case of the concretised Sabarmati. So there goes the ecological function. 0/2 so far are you with me finally come the turn of the human beings and it is here that the tragedy runs deep. For not very long ago, Gift City Ahmedabad Sabarmati did meet societal needs and expectations. The river supported a richly diverse community and provided sustenance for 40,000 families in Ahmedabad alone. It as well as was the setting for a historical bazaar- The Gujari Bazaar, which has met on the riverfront every Sunday since the 15th century. All these communities were wiped out in the name of beautification. People living along the riverbanks were summarily evicted and shifted to a place on the outskirts of Ahmedabad without even rudimentary infrastructure. Nothing written in this article can express the futile efforts, the desperation, the trauma, and the despair of the displaced people as well as Navdeep Mathur’s brave and comprehensive paper on the Sabarmati Riverfront far from meeting societal needs then, the Sabarmati restoration has been an excuse for targeted eviction.

To unearth the reasons for an action that defies logic, it is necessary to follow the money and in this case, the trail is clear while the rhetoric for the project claims to have converted ‘private goods’ into ‘public assets’, even a cursory examination indicates that the reverse is true. Rs.1200 crores of public money was spent on the creation of 200 hectares of real-estate where the riverbed once lay. The project calls this ‘reclamation’ the river and its people call it ‘encroachment’. The riverbed was once used by 11,000 of Ahmadabad’s poorest families and about 2 lakh people accessed it for their livelihoods. When evicted, these people were not given any municipal support whatsoever. Most of this money was spent on channelling the river, ‘reclaiming’ the river bed, and constructing retaining walls, embankments, and other infrastructure. In other words, most of this money was handed over to private construction agencies. Details of this expenditure are not available. Today, the created land is being parcelled out and sold to private developers. Creation of public assets indeed!

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