A CRITIQUE OF DISPLACEMENT, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT POLICY IN INDIA
Keywords:
development, irrigation.Abstract
Independent India’s economic development based on large projects and big industries were accompanied by widespread displacement. It has been argued that alienation, deprivation and inequality are inherent in the strategy of Indian development. Annually the lives and livelihood of nearly ten million people across the globe are affected by force displacement of Infrastructure projects such as irrigation schemes, mines, industries, power plant and roads. Though million of people have been displaced by various planned development scheme since Independence no reliable data exist on the extent of displacement and rehabilitation. Thus due to the lack of a detailed and comprehensive rehabilitation and resettlement policy the process of resettlement of displaced people has been minimal and not very successful. It becomes clear that the objectives of any just and equitable law and policy dealing with the social and human impact of big dams cannot be limited only to minimize the trauma of displacement and ensuring the just resettlement of the victims of displacement. It must incorporate the objective to end or severely curtail displacement itself to no longer accept state induced involuntary displacement and resettlement as an inevitable cost of all developmental projects. Clearly developmental rehabilitation has any chance of becoming a reality only if it is backed by effective sanctions of law and institutions.
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