Year: 2013 | Month: June | volume 58 | Issue 2
Magnitude of Displacement: Implications and Future Solutions
Abstract: <div>The magnitude of displacement in Orissa is a matter of deep concern as the benefits of development could not be attained by the poor and backward people despite our planned effort since independence.With the introduction of new economic reforms in 1990-91, the government of Orissa is inviting several companies to extract its natural resources for economic development of the state. But in the name of development the interests of the local inhabitants are neglected and they become worst sufferer of the development strategy followed by the government. Acquisition of land for these purposes poses a greater threat to the displaced community and alarming the situation day by day where the government is planned to develop large projects. The extraction of resource for economic development is leading to large scale development - induced displacement which has put up public resistance against forcible land acquisition by the government which has been totally neglected. The Draft—Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy, which came into existence in the state on May 2006, as an alternative mechanism, is relatively good in many point of view, but ignores some major issues which plays a vital role for the livelihoods of millions of people. Though the policy</div><div>promises several additional sops for project affected families, but the activists quoted it, ‘as a mere public relations exercise of the government’. Therefore, an appropriate, adequate and effective policy measures for the resettlement of displaced inhabitants in the project affected area is the need of the hour.</div>
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