Thursday, November 22, 2012

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT: DAM REHABILITATION

Governments rarely consider rehabilitation while drafting dam projects

The problem is that such rehabilitation moves are completely subject to political deviancies, wherein one government might be appreciative of the same – to earn brownie points – but another government, from another political camp, might be totally against the implementation of the same. Sadly, even celebrities lose no time in jumping on the media bandwagon to cry hoarse about their support (or lack of it) to the ‘movement’.

Can’t an Indian government just face up to the current reality and do something about such problems in relocation and resettlement. For crying shame, a formal Rehabilitation & Resettlement Bill was passed finally only in the year 2007, a full sixty years after Independence. We suspect it’ll take another sixty before they put the Bill into action... 


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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