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- Title
DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED INVOLUNTARY DISPLACEMENT: A CASE OF BIG DAMS.
- Authors
Raj, D. Sunder
- Abstract
Developing economies, to achieve the target, in the decade of 1950s, relied mainly on rapid income generation through capital formation in the form of machineries (in large-scale capital-intensive industries), irrigation infrastructure (like big dams and multipurpose river valley projects), power (hydro, thermal and nuclear) and transport (highways) believing in the theory of trickle-down of benefits. In her pursuit to follow a mixed economy, India adopted the socialistic centralised economic planning while retaining the private sector. Big dams cause displacement of people from their ancestral habitats and traditional occupations. Displacement also causes serious economic, social and cultural disruption of the people affected. Since all big dams would result in people losing their dwellings, there should be adequate measures in a planned manner for provision of job, land, houses and villages. In fact, land for land, house for house and training for gainful employment, facilities for schooling and health are all legitimate expectations of the displaced people and should be provided in the same way as the dams are designed and built.
- Subjects
INDIA; DAMS; FORCED migration; CENTRAL economic planning; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
ICFAI Journal of Public Administration, 2008, Vol 4, Issue 2, p88
- ISSN
0973-225X
- Publication type
Article