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Resettlement and Rehabilitation of People: Its Problems and Concerns

Uprooting people for major projects like dams has negative impacts as it reduces their livelihoods and causes psychological stress. No project that displaces people can be done without their consent. In India, many people have been unfairly displaced by dams with little compensation or satisfactory rehabilitation. Resettling displaced people requires alternate land, but there is little available high quality land in India's overpopulated country. As a result, most displaced people are given unusable wasteland, and rehabilitation also often fails to adequately support displaced communities for many years.

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Resettlement and Rehabilitation of People: Its Problems and Concerns

Uprooting people for major projects like dams has negative impacts as it reduces their livelihoods and causes psychological stress. No project that displaces people can be done without their consent. In India, many people have been unfairly displaced by dams with little compensation or satisfactory rehabilitation. Resettling displaced people requires alternate land, but there is little available high quality land in India's overpopulated country. As a result, most displaced people are given unusable wasteland, and rehabilitation also often fails to adequately support displaced communities for many years.

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RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE: ITS PROBLEMS AND CONCERNS

Uprooting people is a serious issue. It reduces their ability to subsist on their traditional natural
resource base and also creates great psychological pressures. Thus no major project that is likely to
displace people can be carried out without the consent of the local people.
In India, lakhs of people have been unfairly displaced by thousands of dams created since
independence to drive the green revolution. The dams have been built virtually at the cost of these
poor local people who have been powerless to resist the Government’s will. The Government is
expected to find ‘good’ arable land to resettle displaced persons and provide them with an adequate
rehabilitation package to recover from the disruption. This has rarely occurred to the satisfaction of
the project affected individuals. In many cases across the country, this has not been implemented
satisfactorily for decades. Resettlement requires alternate land. However, in our overpopulated
country, there is no arable high quality land available. Thus most project affected persons are given
unusable wasteland. Rehabilitation involves more than just giving land. In most cases this is also not
adequately done.
Problems faced by people:
1. Due to rehabilitation, if the papers of land possession are lost, often they do not get
the desirable amount of compensation from the government
2. If any major project (dam, expressway, highway) construction causes rehabilitation of
people, often they donot get the compensation properly
3. Often rehabilitated people can’t manage to live properly in a new settlement
4. Often most of the amount of compensation for the rehabilitated people donot reach
them and is misplaced or used for some other reasons

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Role of Information Technology in EnvironmentalProtection and Health
The understanding of environmental concerns and issues related to human health has exploded
during the last few years due to the sudden growth of Information Technology.
Role in Environmental Protection:
 The computer age has turned the world around due to the incredible rapidity with which
IT spreads knowledge.
 IT can do several tasks extremely rapidly, accurately and spread the information through
the world’s networks of millions of computer systems.
 A few examples of the use of computer technology that aid environmental studies
include software such as using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a tool to
map landuse patterns and document change by studying digitized toposheets and/or
satellite imagery. Once this is done, an expert can ask a variety of questions which the
software can answer by producing maps which helps in landuse planning.
 Climatic or weather pattern forecast and predictions can be easily done

 Print and electronic media has also evolved due to IT

 The Internet with its thousands of websites has made it extremely simple to get the
appropriate environmental information for any study
 Information Technology is a powerful tool to help increase public awareness about
environmental issues.
Role in Human Health
 Specialised software can analyse data for epidemiological studies and population
dynamics.
 The relationship between the environment and health has been established due to
the growing utilisation of computer technology.
 This looks at infection rates, morbidity or mortality and the etiology (causative
factors) of a disease.
 Computerised Axial Temography (CT Scan), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI),
Ultrasonography (USG) could be done to diagnose diseases at a proper time
 Nervous disorders could easily be diagnosed
 Disease details could be saved and it could be consulted easily with other doctors in
others distant areas, if felt like.
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In what ways AIDS can be prevented?
Use of sterilised needle and syringe
Acceptance of blood from Government registered Blood Bank only, when required
Safe Sex
In what ways AIDS virus infection doesnot happen?
 If someone stays with the patient
 Physical touch doesnot cause AIDS
 If someone uses the same toilet as the patient uses, it doesnot cause AIDS
 If patient sneezes or coughs, it doesnot spread AIDS
 Sitting or having food or drink with patient doesnot spread AIDS
HUMAN RIGHTS
Several environmental issues are closely linked to human rights. These
include the equitable distribution of environmental resources, the utilisation
of resources, resettlement issues around development projects such as
dams and mines, and access to health to prevent environment related
diseases

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