Dr. Vasant Govarikar a working Scientist, one of the members of the Five Member Group (FMG) appointed by the Government of India in Aug 1993 has expressed his own view in the report given by FMG as follows:

" Instead of quickly allowing a stage to be reached when the benefits of the dam can be made to being to flow to the needy, the parties seem to be suggesting alternatives and demanding alterations, unleashing delays in the economic reconvert from whatever has already been very significant investment. I am not questioning their bonafides or intentions because I have no doubt that these are beyond doubt and honourable. But I suspect a distortion in overall perspective can cause a technical project of such extreme complexity as the SSP appears totally de- professionalized in its publicity.

The proposal of height reduction is sought to be linked with the magnitude of the resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) problem. At one end of the spectrum, there will be no R&R problem if there is no dam. But I would have thought that the concerned four States of the Indian Union sat through several years of the Tribunal deliberations and decided several years that this nation has the will and capability to resettle and rehabilitate the populace affected by a river basin project. "