Development, Displacement and Human Rights Violations
| Author | Sudhanshu Tripathi |
| Published date | 01 December 2017 |
| Date | 01 December 2017 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0019556117726821 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
63(4) 567–578
© 2017 IIPA
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DOI: 10.1177/0019556117726821
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1 Associate Professor, Political Science, M.D.P.G. College, Pratapgarh (UP), India.
Corresponding author:
Sudhanshu Tripathi, Associate Professor, Political Science, M.D.P.G. College, Pratapgarh (UP), India.
E-mail: sudhanshu.tripathi07@gmail.com
Development,
Displacement and
Human Rights
Violations
Sudhanshu Tripathi1
Abstract
Every year the lives and livelihoods of more than ten million people across the
globe are affected by forced displacement due to infrastructural projects such as
dams, mines, industries, power plants, roads, etc. thereby denigrating them from
their culture, customs and language by mainstream communities. As a way out,
the process of displacement and rehabilitation ought to be executed as a last
resort and that, too, be achieved in a planned and more humane manner while
taking into confidence the affected people.
Keywords
Development, displacement, human rights, violations, marginalisation
Introduction
Urbanisation, mining and infrastructural development projects carried out by
states, often with the assistance of the international community, are the major
forces of displacement all over the world. They cause an adverse impact on millions
of people as they deprive them of their livelihood, their shelters that stand in the
way of dams, highways or other large-scale construction projects and also their
social and cultural systems, besides pushing them mostly into abject poverty.
In fact, land acquisition has destroyed their lifestyle and social setting and has
violated their basic human rights. Although, as in some cases, the project-affected
people have protested tooth and nail against their displacement, others have
simply acquiesced while expecting huge rehabilitation packages which they rarely
receive. As a consequence, people’s responses against infrastructural development
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