The Prime Minister said the Sardar Sarovar Dam faced so many obstacles before its completion but the government was determined that the project will go on. "71 years ago, before independence, before most of you and I were born, Sardar Patel had seen the dream and vision of Sardar Sarovar Dam. If work had been done, then the project would have been complete in the 1970s itself. People would not have had water problems. The land would have been so much more fertile," he said.