In Orissa, about 1.5 lakhs were deprived of their livelihood in the name of national development, between 1951 and 1995.Fortytwo per cent of them are tribals. The rest were impoverished and often turned into bonded labourers. For example, of the 150,000 workers on the contruction sites of the Asiad facilities at Delhi in 1982, between 30,000 and 40,000 were slave labourers mostly from Orissa and Chattisgarh. They were deprived of their livelihood by displacement and industrial deforestation and abandoned to themselves. So they fell in the hands of the labour contractors who promised them riches and turned them into slave construction labourers.
Globalisation involves taking over much more land and impoverishing lakhs more.
For example, a total of 2.3 million acres of land were acquired for dams, industries, mines and miscellaneous projects in Orissa, 1951-1995. Of this 107,000 acres were for industries. But recent trends show that around 200,000 acres will be acquired in Orissa for industries alone during the next ten years. There is very little talk of rehabilitation. So many more, particularly tribals and dalits will be deprived of their livelihood.