Environmental Issues: Rehabilitation Problem (1)

Involuntary displacement of human population is always traumatic. Irrespective of the causes leading to such migrations the degree of suffering experienced by such people simply
cannot be quantified in money values, and even in words it can be described only inadequately. But, unfortunately, ousting of people likely to be submerged under irrigation or hydel power dams is a classic case where hardships are imposed on people in spite of the ‘pro-people’ laws and policies proclaimed by the Government. Below is a critique of the Tehri Dam Rehabilitation.