Resettling Displaced People: Policy and Practice in India

by Mathur,Hari Mohan

• ISBN13: 9780415586214
• ISBN10: 0415586216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-20
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly exploration of these critical issues in a wider perspective, examining resettlement policies as well as resettlement strategies, their strengths, their weaknesses, the persisting gap between policy and its actual practice and the means to improve resettlement outcomes.This volume is well-structured into four parts: (a) Displacement and Resettlement in Developmental Projects (b) Re-examining Resettlement Policies (c) Addressing Resettlement Concerns and (d) Resettlement in a Globalizing World. It goes beyond the common description of resettlement problems and attempts at gaining a deeper understanding of resettlement realities. In a separate section, the book discusses the hotly debated current issues of resettlement policy and practice in the context of globalization.The volume contains original case studies which will bring to academic and policy tables a body of important new ideas that will stimulate debates and also hopefully change and improve current practices. The contributors to this volume are eminent scholars, including some who have played a vital role in shaping resettlement policies as well as in implementing projects at the grassroots level.

Author Biography

Hari Mohan Mathur is Visiting Professor. Council for Social Development New Delhi.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Foreword by Muchkund Dubey	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction and overview	p. 1
The governance challenge
Making resettlement work: policy, planning and management	p. 25
Emerging issues in resettlement policy
Converting resettlement policy into resettlement law: a welcome initiative but no occasion for celebration yet	p. 77
Broadening the definition of 'population displacement': Geography and economics in conservation policy	p. 85
Involuntary resettlement policy and transport projects	p. 120
Resettlement realities: the gulf between policy and practice	p. 143
Compensation and the resettlement process
Misunderstood and misused: Re-examining the compensation criterion in resettlement	p. 183
From Narmada to Nandigram: the never ending clamour for land as the only route to resettlement	p. 221
Reconstructing livelihoods: The CIL experience with self-employment schemes	p. 233
Resettlement in the Tehri dam project: an ethnographic profile	p. 245
The micro-politics of urban evictions and rehabilitation: cases from Kolkata	p. 267
Privatising development
Development-induced displacement in the era of privatisation	p. 301
Special economic zones: the new 'land' mines	p. 317
Special economic zones, land acquisition, and civil societyin West Bengal	p. 336
A blow to tribal life: the effects of privatisation in Orissa	p. 358
An alternative view
The limitations of current approaches to resettlement	p. 381
About the Editor	p. 416
Contributors	p. 417
Index	p. 422
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