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Resettlement and Rehabilitation in ISP

Broad Principles for Rehabilitation of Displaced Families:

1. The aim of the State Government is that all displaced families as defined hereinafter, would, after their relocation and resettlement improve, or at least regain, their previous standard of living within a reasonable time.
2. It would be ensured that no hardship is caused to the displaced families in moving out from the present habitat in to a new place and way of living.
3. It would be ensured that no adverse social, economic and environmental effects of displacement would take place on the host communities.
4. Special care would be taken of the families of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, marginal farmers and small farmers.
5. Families having legal titles to land and the encroachers would be treated on the same footing for the purpose of entitlement for compensation or for payment of an amount equivalent to compensation, as the case may be, and for their rehabilitation.
6. No distinction would be made between the families displaced from revenue villages and the families displaced from the forest villages in respect of their rehabilitation.
7. Reasonable compensation would be determined for the lands, buildings and other immovable assets acquired. Similarly, a reasonable cost would be charged for the lands that would be allotted at the new sites.
8. Displaced families would be rehabilitated, maintaining the existing structure of social groups as far as possible, in the command area or near the periphery of the affected areas in accordance with their preferences.
9. Adequate physical and social infrastructure and community services would be provided at the new sites.
10. While resettling families entitled for allotment of land, it will be ensured that viable units of land are given,
11. In order that in the process of resettlement, the new and host families get fully integrated, the displaced families would be encouraged and assisted, in purchase of lands from voluntary sellers of the host village.
12. The rehabilitation policy be so implemented that middlemen and profiteers would get eliminated.
13. landless agricultural labourers and non-agriculturist families would be assisted in rehabilitation at  new places by giving grant-in aid in the initial period and self and wage employment opportunities.
14. Displaced families would be given priority in employment on the project construction.

By keeping the earlier resettlement Policy for Project affected families of Narmada basin complex, Government of Madhya Pradesh has taken various decisions for improving and uplifting the life of PAFs in the State Council Meeting held on 13^th July, 1998. Government has taken beneficial decisions very sympathetically for solving the problems of Project affected farmers whose land is coming under submergence due to Indira Sagar Project.

• The valuation of land under submergence will be calculated on the basis of selling rate of Sivani Malwa area in State. 
• The evaluation of acquired wells of displaced farmers will be on realistic basis, which will be as per CSR of P.W.D. Earlier assumed value only used to made.
• Government has taken decision now that compensation will be made for cement concrete pipes and PVC water drains, which are provided for Irrigation Purpose in submerged area.
• Displaced persons who are not interested to take possession of residential pilot in Resettlement site, now are entitled for rupees forty thousand compensation instead of rupees fifteen thousand prior to this.
• New Resettlement site is to be developed near by Mundi town for resettlement of displaced persons.
• The payment of compensation will be made in one installment in place of two installments subject to undertaking given by displaced applicant in writing regarding their shifting within a month.
• Displaced (Person) farmers can receive a loan, for twenty years interest free, if he purchases the land in other place and the cost of such purchased land comes more than the received compensation amount. In this connection rule will be formed within a month time.
• Casual work plan is accepted to give rescue and protection of such villages, which are coming under prospective submergence areas in the year. Provision for construction of temporary shades drinking water facility, etc are made. Food will also be served free of cost.
• Displaced farmers should received market value of their land in the awards, which is going to be passed in future. New process is to be fixed within one month, and, advise and consultation will also be taken from  five representatives of displaced families of that particular village while fixation of such cost.
• In such submergence area of Indira Sagar Project, where a complaints for fixation of low rates in previous cases of passed awards, the committee constituted under the chairmanship of departmental commissioner will review  such cases. The committee will also include non-government member. In such cases, where complaint of less compensation is found correct than the committee will fix reasonable amount and difference of the amount towards displaced person will be given in the form of Special Resettlement Grant to respective PAFs.
• The Government will bear the payment of stamp duty and registration fee over such lands, which is purchased by displaced person in some other places. For  appointing of teachers, priority will be given to eligible candidates from displaced families.
• Those eligible displaced persons who are encroachers of forest land and have lost their receipts, now they will also receive compensation after verification from government records.
• Apart from acquired land which has come under submergence areas, if the use of acquired land is made for other purposes such as for establishment of resettlement site/bridge/construction of roads, and if due to these, displacement condition occurs then too the above mentioned benefits will be available to all affected PAFs  towards whom the  provisions cited under Policy for Indira Sagar Project are due. This is also applicable for other projects, which comes under Narmada Valley Development Authority.

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