Involuntary Displacement and Resettlement — Policy and ... - CEPA

Figure 3: Mean income (of different categories of livelihoods)1,400,0001,200,0001,000,000Mean 2SE (Rs.)800,000600,000400,000200,0000504,513192,075308,468108,537929,743282,453227,832157,941Type I LabourType II Labour GovernmentServantsCategoryAsset HoldersMean income (as well as 95% error bars) of different categories of livelihoods. The perforatedlines indicate pre-displacement income levels and the solid lines indicate post-displacementincome levels. The post-displacement incomes includes saved income (jewellery mortgage,cash at displacement, debt) and relief (Amirthalingam and Lakshman forthcoming). The meanvalues are stated in the diagram.Figure 3 builds a profile of livelihoods. The pre-displacement profile showsthat Asset Holder households, on average, had been earning a lot more thanany other category. There is, however, a huge variation in income within thiscategory. Government Servants earn the lowest average income fromamong the four categories in Sampur. This can, on the one hand, beattributed to the multiple livelihoods undertaken by Types I and II Labour,which increase their income above that of Government Servants, who earnonly their salary. On the other hand, the criteria used here meant that the75