STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ON DISPLACED FAMILIES DUE TO SARDAR SAROVAR DAM IN INDIA
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Resettlement, displacement, development, Sardar Sarovar Dam, Socio-economic impactAbstract
The paper describes how India's Sardar Sarovar dam is an example of a development plan that has resulted in huge environmental displacement. This happens directly by displacement and implicitly through the loss of livelihoods as a result of environmental changes. The essay emphasises the difficulties of relocation and rehabilitation, as well as the potential for more displacement as a result of this process. The inequality between development beneficiaries and those who must bear the majority of the development costs is also addressed. For any group or society, displacement is harrowing, both in terms of livelihood and culture. The article argues that the state must strike a balance among its efforts to promote development and those to make it durable, just, and equitable. The study focuses on the issues that arise in the allocation of reimbursement and relocation in such programs. Dam-induced displacement occurrences at the Sardar Sarovar Project in the Narmada River Valley Project in Gujarat, India, are emphasised as examples. The project is unsustainable due to the misrepresentation of its prospective benefits, as well as its massive social and environmental effects.
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