Lok Sabha Question No. 1458 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-24
Subject: Rehabilitation Policy for Displaced People
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: BOORA NARSAIAH GOUD

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1458 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.11.2016

## Rehabilitation Policy for Displaced People

## 1458. DR. BOORA NARSAIAH GOUD:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)    whether the Government has drafted a Rehabilitation Policy in 2007 which is applied to all displaced people in the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (b)    the special place given to school going children under this policy;
- (c)    whether the school going children are getting their due from Government under the rehabilitation and relief packages and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d)     the  steps  proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Union  Government  to  ensure  that  all  school going children are not deprived of due financial packages?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

- (a)            Government  of  India  formulated  a  National Rehabilitation  and  Resettlement Policy (NRRP), 2007, which was notified on 31 st October 2007. The Policy is available in the public domain, including on the official website of Department of Land Resources at the following URL:

http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/downloads/pdfs/NRRP2007.pdf

- (b)to(d)    Para  7.22.1  of the NRRP,  2007  stipulates  that:  In  all  cases  of  involuntary displacement of four hundred families or more en masse in plain areas, or two hundred families or more en masse in tribal or hilly areas, DDP blocks or areas mentioned in the Schedule V or Schedule VI to the Constitution, comprehensive infrastructural  facilities  and  amenities  notified  by  the  appropriate  Government shall  be  provided  in  the  resettlement  area(s).  Such  facilities  and  amenities shall, inter alia, include roads, public transport, drainage, sanitation, safe drinking water, drinking water for cattle, community ponds, grazing land, land for fodder, plantation (social forestry or agro-forestry), Fair Price shops, panchayat ghars , Cooperative Societies, Post Offices, seed-cum-fertilizer storage,  irrigation,  electricity,  health  centres,  child  and  mother  supplemental nutritional services, children's playground, community centres, schools, institutional  arrangements  for  training,  places  of  worship,  land  for  traditional tribal institutions, burial/cremation grounds, and security arrangements.

Para 7.22.2 of NRRP, 2007stipulates that: In cases of involuntary displacement of  less  than  four  hundred  families en  masse in  plain  areas,  or  less  than  two hundred families or more en masse in tribal or hilly areas, DDP blocks or areas mentioned in  the  Schedule  V  or  Schedule  VI  to  the  Constitution,  all  affected families  shall  be  provided  basic  infrastructural  facilities  and  amenities  at  the resettlement site(s) as per the norms specified by the appropriate Government. It would  be  desirable  that provision  of drinking  water, electricity, schools, dispensaries, and access to the resettlement sites, amongst others, be included in the resettlement plan approved by the appropriate Government.

Statutory  provisions  for  Rehabilitation  and  Resettlement  are  available  in  the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation  and  Resettlement  Act,  2013  and  in  other  Central  /  State  Acts under which land acquisition is undertaken.

Information on Rehabilitation and Resettlement measures undertaken by Central and State Governments is not centrally maintained.

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