• February, 1961
  Administrative approval to Stage-I of the Navagam (Bharuch) Project accorded by Government of Gujarat.

• April, 1961
  (1) Inauguration of the Project by the then Prime Minister
  (Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and commencement of preliminary works).

• 1963
  Investigation of exact site for building High Navagam Dam.

• November, 1963
  Agreement (Bhopal Agreement) between M.P. and Gujarat regarding the height of the Navagam Dam arrived at in a meeting between the Chief Ministers of both the States and with the Union Minister of Irrigation and Power (Bhopal Agreement). 
  The agreement (Bhopal Agreement) envisaged a Navagam Dam with FRL 425 ft, with its entire benefits to be enjoyed by the State of Gujarat, a Punasa Dam (Narmada Sagar), with FRL 850 ft in M.P. with a cost and benefits sharing formula, and Bargi project with FRL 1365 ft In Stage-I and FRL (Full Reservoir Level) 1390 ft In Stage-II to be constructed with a loan assistance of total Rs. 10.00 crores from the Government of Gujarat and Maharashtra.

• After considering the representation of the State of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, the report was submitted to the Government of India.The unanimous recommendations of the committee were interalia:

• Water availability of 28.94 MAF.

• Construction of 12 major dams, namely, Rosra, Basania,Burhner, Bargi, Chinki, Sitarewa, Barna, Hosangabad, Tawa, Kolar, Narmadasagar and Omkareshwar (all in Madhya Pradesh) and a terminal dam at Navagam with height of 500 ft 
  (3 kilometers from present site).

• For Navagam Project, it recommended : 
  (1) 300 ft canal to irrigate 46 lakh acres (19 lakh hectares) of land in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
  (2) Power generation with installed capacity 1400 Megawatts.

• The committee also drew up a Master Plan for full utilisation of water for irrigation and power benefits integrated development of Narmada Water Resources.

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