Executive Summary:  On April 2 2006 the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) engineers stated emphatically in a major newspaper that 3.4 crore units  of electricity valued at Rs 7 crore  will be generated every day once the SSP dam's height is increased to 121.9 mts. Annually this amounts to Rs 2500 crores of electricity.  Their strategy is to exaggerate the benefits so that Indian citizens, state governments and the Supreme Court will be lured away from the pressing issues of the 35,000 families being displaced by the dam.  Their  rehabilitation needs to be accomplished before the dam is built further.  In reality,  the hydro-electric component of SSP dam is costing in excess of Rs 5500 crores (and rehabilitation has already cost an additional Rs 2000 crores with bulk of it pending).  As per the Narmada Control Authority's own documents and web-site, the reliable electricity generated will amount to Rs 2 crore a day ( Rs 730 crores a year) when the SSP dam is built to 138 mts  (at 121.9 mts of SSP it will be about 20% lesser  and at the current 110.6 mts it will be another 15% lesser) and will go down to just Rs 25 Lakhs a day (Rs 90 crore a year)  in the next few years when waters are diverted for irrigation after completion of  canal networks on the Narmada river.  The reality makes SSP, which along with its irrigation canals is projected to cost Rs 40,000 crores, financially unsound and this is another skeleton in the dam engineers' closet.