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Case Studies of Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India

 Sardor  Sarovar Dam :

River Narmada flows through Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat and merges in Arabian sea. The Sardar Sarovar Dam is Situated in the Narmada valley. 


Issue 

As a result of construction of the dam, about 573 villages consisting 10 lakh people would be homeless and 45000 hectares of forest and 2,00,000 hectares of cultivated lands would be submerged in Maharastra .

The affected tribal people must be given adequate compensation in the form of land, jobs, cash compensation, etc., and care should taken to improve their quality of their life.

Now the Gujarat government has planned to increase the height of the dam has become a controversial issue as there is no proper rehabilitation scheme for the affected people.

Narmada bachao Andolan ( NBA) was initiated against the construction of the dam is lead by Smt. Maedha Patkar.She is Constantly working for affected outsee tribals.

Narmada Control Authority (NCA) also asked Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra governments to give status of resettlement and rehabilitation of the people displaced by the Narmada dam project. 

Tehri Dam Project :




The dam is being constructed across the rivers Bhagirathi and Bhilanganga, close to the Gashwal town of Tehri. The dam would submerge nearly 100 villages, including Tehri, a historical village, 85,600 families will have to be relocated.

The region of Tehri is vulnerable to earthquakes. The dam is also structurally incapable of withstanding the water, which would kill thousands of people. Due to the above reasons, the people nearer to that area were resettled in some other place.

Pong Dam :

The Pong Dam was constructed on Beas River in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. The water is utilized to irrigate Rajasthan. Therefore, Rajasthan agreed to provide land to the oustees in the area of  Indira Gandhi canal. Out of 30,000 families uprooted to Pong Dam, Only 16,000 were considered eligible for allotment, as there were only bonafide cultivators. The rest of the 14000 families are questionable, Punjab, which is one of the beneficiaries of the dam is not involved in rehabilitation issue.

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