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34 Organised Response Land Alienation These development projects have raised questions of equity, fairness, justice, and equality before law, in the matter of distribution of benefits and burdens. Today the project affected people are no longer in a mood to suffer displacement along with its concomitant attributes such as occupational degeneration, social disorientation, pauperisation, loss in dignity and often getting cheated of the compensation amount, which serve to make the experience a trauma. This has given rise to protest movements, marked by growing militancy. An interesting feature of the growing protest movement has been the creation of a national awareness of the problem. Also protest movements of the displaced have played a major role in displacement becoming a key issue in the debate on development. Of late, women especially those belonging to rural areas, have taken leadership in several of the movements against land alienation. Jharkhand Koel Karo At the Koel Karo project in the name of ‘development’ the government is desperately trying to grab land, displace people, to erect the monuments of development. The Bihar Government raised the idea of construction of the Koel Karo hydel power project in the Jharkhand region in the early 1950s, and baseline surveys started in 1955. However, the report on the survey appeared almost 20 years later, in 1973. The intention had been to generate 710 MW of power from two dams constructed on the Koel and Karo rivers. Later, due to paucity of funds, the Bihar State Electricity Board transferred ownership of the project to the National Hydel Power
Corporation (NHPC) in 1980. The NHPC planned to complete it by 1987. However, sustained people’s resistance has ensured that work on several project components is yet to start. To protest the proposal of Koel Karo Project the local people formed a Kendriya Jan Sangathan Samity, to strengthen the struggle. Half the members were women and in all the public meetings, women’s participation was much more than men. A public meeting of the Kendriya Jan Sangathan Samity was called on 27 December, 1977 at Konabir. Women came walking from all the remote villages like Tena, Lookera, Kumbhari, Narekela, Tirri and Tengeria. Their active participation helped to strengthen the movement. A Swiss technical team reached Lohajimi to conduct a survey for the making of an underground tunnel. The villagers stopped the team at the outskirt of Lohajimi village for as long as eight hours. Women outnumbered men. In a tribal setting women and men are at par and, therefore, any issue sees equal participation. During the movement the women actively Organised Response participated in the process, taking a lead role in organising meetings, rallies etc. For better understanding of women’s role in the movement, following case studies are presented. It is the effect of this successful movement that the government has decided to give up the hydropower project at Koel Karo, though a gazette notification with regard to this is yet to be published. Netrahat Field Firing Range Building of the Netrahat field firing range for use by the 23rd Artillery Brigade of the Indian Army is expected to remove 245 villages at a time from the tribal map of the country, leaving approximately 2,24,940 people landless and homeless. The government’s slogan (that this is for the ‘national interest’) will actually translate into the biggest displacement of adivasis and the largest land losses for them. The government’s stand is that as patriots the adivasis of the area should gladly accept homelessness, landlessness and the gift of multigenerational poverty. For field firing and artillery practices of the 23rd Artillery Brigade, the Indian Army is 35
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under agriculture accounts for only
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when capitalism and imperialism had
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arred from using, are used by the s
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Process of Land Alienation Breeding
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Proposals Galore for Industries in
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Table 19: Diversions of Forests for
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Table 20: Land Grabbing in the Name
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ha. in the Garhwal zone. There are
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lots of employment opportunities fo
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Process of Land Alienation Table 22
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economic rights of Scheduled Castes
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esources in Rajasthan, having poten
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Table 23: Approved Sezs in Rajastha
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tourists and by the year 2012 an ad
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Table 25: Land to be Acquired by Ja
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Table 29: Land Acquired for Farmhou
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Process of Land Alienation Gardens
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is not only the JDA but the whole s
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will have to deposit 40 per cent of
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Summary, Conclusion and Recommendat
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state governments are promising all
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propounded and being put into pract
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y. The result is that the agricultu
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Selected Bibliography Selected Bibl
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Frontline (2007): Dark Side of Mini
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Selected Bibliography Ibid., (2004)
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Selected Bibliography Nayak, Ramesh
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Process of Land Alienation Shiva, D
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Process of Land Alienation Women an
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