We are indebted to Sh. A.K. Dubey, Member (Environment & Forests), NVDA for facilitating our task by providing technical and logistic support and for his valuable guidance and professional support throughout the course of the study.

We are grateful to the Divisional Forest Officers of the Khandwa, Dewas and Barhwaha divisions for sparing their valuable time to interact with us during field studies.

We sincerely acknowledge Sh. J.J. Dutta, Retd. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Sh. R.C. Sharma, Retd. Chief Conservator of Forests, Government of Madhya Pradesh for their invaluable guidance and resource inputs both, in field and at the time of the preparation of the documentation on the Forest Clearance Plan of Omkareshwar Project.

We would also like to place on record our special thanks to Sh. Devraj Barua, Environment Officer, Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation Ltd. for accompanying us during the field studies and for providing useful insight into the project.

At WII, we are grateful to Sh. S. Singsit, Director, for his encouragement and support. We also acknowledge the inputs of Sh. Narinder S. Bist, Assistant Programmer and Sh. G. Muthu Veerapan, Computer Assistant in preparation of the maps and desktop printing of this document.