Despite decades of ignoring impacts of hydropower and infrastructure projects on people forced to give up their homes and property, India continues to displace and impoverish more of their people. Although India passed new legislation in 2013 to properly compensate people involuntarily relocated, implementation has not been effective, as this article explains. Political commitment is lacking, not just in India but also in many other countries, to strictly enforce basic rights of affected people are recognized.

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