How Delhi’s resettlement colonies have set a new standard for peripheralisation

Delhi’s resettlement colonies lie within the framework of a ‘planned city’; yet they receive a treatment separate from planned …

Vidarbha compensation package inadequate

Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers

A lesson in bad environmental management

Trunks from houses

Left unaddressed

Rehabilitation issue ignored in Kolkata's eviction drive

In Court

Displaced by fencing

Government fails to compensate the homeless in Mizoram, Tripura

In twilight zone

Even as tribal communities' anti-Koel Karo agitation continues, there is confusion in official circles about the current status of the project

Draft rehabilitation policy charts no new courses

The latest draft on rehabilitation intends to help people, literally

‘Bread, freedom vital’

It's 121.92 m now

Narmada dam gets boost, faces opposition

Highrise in loose mud

Dharavi resettlement creates a windfall for builders. Cost: local entrepreneurship

Dharavi gets costlier, project gets delayed

Kill bills

Breach of duty

POSCO bags 1,174 ha forests

Villagers resist land acquisition for steel plant  

No developed land for farmers

Maharashtra takes U turn; amends rehabilitation law

Slum today, gone tomorrow

If the Union cabinet endorses a recent decision of the group of ministers, about 35,000 shanties will have to be removed from Mumbai's Santa Cruz …

Nowhere!

Three months after Gujarat was flattened by an earthquake, the state government goes in for a relocation plan to satisfy the builder's lobby

Impending displacement for Orissa villagers

The Orissa government has finally begun disbursing compensation to likely oustees in the lower Suktel dam project. Nineteen families of Magurbeda …

Politics of water resource management in India

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A lesson for the civil servant

Book>> Beyond Relocation, The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement Edited by Renu Modi Sage Rs 850

Turkey earthquakes one year on: The devastation has exposed deep societal scars and women are bearing the brunt

Following the quakes, women and girls faced heightened care and domestic work responsibilities, health challenges and an increased susceptibility …

Phailin(g) to tell the story

The dead make a better story than the living. Failure of media to continue reporting Phailin will take the pressure off administration to provide …

We cannot turn the clock back

The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests