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Beyond Relocation: The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement emphasizes the need for reforming laws and policies dealing with displacement and resettlement on a global as well as local level. The issues of risks, impoverishment, entitlements and survival strategies of those displaced are discussed in this book from a gendered perspective.
Eminent Domain, Displacement and Impoverishment
Eminent Domain, Displacement and Impoverishment
As the first prime minister of the new nation, Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of development for India entailed rapid industrialisation through mega projects that necessitated expropriation of huge parcels of land and natural resources. In 1961, he inaugurated the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD). In the same year, the state used its power of eminent domain to forcibly acquire land from indigenous farming communities living in the six Kevadia villages in Gujarat for infrastructure development related to the SSD. This resulted in the social and economic disruption of those displaced involuntarily by the project and the ‘risks of impoverishment’ faced by them due to the government's exercise of its power of ‘eminent domain’.
Eminent domain is the legal ...
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