IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

A New Beginning: Indra Sagar Project and the promise of rehabilitation

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Dr. Indu Pandey,Bharti Sharma

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With growing demand for food and electricity, construction of dams and impoundments are speculated to increase in coming years. In the absence of specific control strategies for dam components they could be more of a bane than a boon to their beneficiaries. It’s far universally popular truth that hydroelectricity is the cheapest and non-polluting source of electricity. So, every state and every country wants to harness their water assets for technology of power to satisfy their electricity call for. The biggest hassle within the course of this electricity is rehabilitation and resettlement of human beings, who're being affected due to submergence in the reservoirs of such hydroelectric initiatives. The rehabilitation and resettlement of project affected humans is a totally touchy challenge and wishes to be treated very carefully and with utmost human attitude. In mega initiatives, like Indira Sagar task in Madhya Pradesh, the problem of rehabilitation and resettlement turns into nevertheless extra sensitive and critical because the wide variety of people concerned on this manner is pretty excessive. In a democratic us of a like India and in the present age of human rights and transparency, this activity needs to be handled very delicately.

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