Managing resettlement in India : approaches, issues, experiences / edited by Hari Mohan Mathur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathur, Hari Mohan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced migration--Social aspects--India.

Forced migration.

Human settlements--India.

Human settlements.

Economic development projects--India.

Economic development projects.

Forced migration--Social aspects.

India.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume of essay looks at how Indian society takes care of the people whom development and large scale infrastructure projects have displaced. Displacement causes migration, impoverishment, and great upheaval in the social fabric. In a word, displacement hurts. The 14 essays in this volume identify significant solutions towards resettlement which can be implemented in unique and diverse displacement contexts to mitigate suffering and to enhance environmental sustainability. They identify existing lapses in resettlement management and procedures and formulate useful policy responses. They pay specific attention through a wide variety of examples to the socio economic consequences of development projects, policy and legal issues, planning and management issues.

Contents:

Introduction and overview / Hari Mohan Mathur

Approches to resettlement management

Resettlement management: denying or confronting risks / Michael M. Cernea

Involuntary resettlement in World Bank-financed projects: reducing impoverishment risks for the affected people / Ismail Serageldin

New livelihoods for old: restoring incomes lost due to involuntary resettlement / Hari Mohan Mathur

Policy and legal framework

The resettlement and rehabilitation policy of India / N.C. Saxena

The Karnataka resettlement of project displaced persons act, 1987: a critical perspective / M.K. Ramesh, Francis A. Joseph

The land acquisition laws in India: an overview with some suggestions for amendment / Sukumar Das

Planning and management issues

Large dam resettlement: planning and implementation issues / Maninder Gill

Urban development and involuntary resettlement / Hari Mohan Mathur

Gender focus in resettlement planning / Malika Basu

Government-NGO collaboration in resettlement and rehabilitation: a NGO view / Achyut Das

Monitoring resettlement operations / Gordon Appleby

Project implementation experiences

Hyderabad water supply and sanitation project: lessons learned / David Marsden, Shymal Sarkar

Managing social issues in extractive industry: issues and lessons from India coal sector environmental and social mitigation project / Mohammed Hasan

The Upper Krishna Project: recent improvements, but resettlement still elusive / S.M. Jaamdar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195678133

9780195678130

OCLC:

64405389

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