The Sardar Sarovar multipurpose hydro project in Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh states in Western India was the first World Bank financed project to be reviewed for its environmental and social impacts by an independent review team, published in the Morse Report, June 1992. As a result of the report, the Bank set a series of benchmarks for the project to avoid suspension. Tod Ragsdale spent six months in India monitoring the benchmark progress with an Indian colleague. Prior to that, he was part of a Bank review team that visited India just after the Morse Report's publication and had also conducted the first Bank sponsored investigation of the resettlement impacts of the Sardar Sarovar's extensive irrigation canal system within Gujarat state. These assignments led to Ragsdale's spending a year in New Delhi, helping establish a resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) supervision capability at the Bank's New Delhi office.