LOWER INDRA LAND OUSTEES SEEK REHAB UNDER 2006 NORMS
LOWER INDRA LAND OUSTEES SEEK REHAB UNDER 2006 NORMS Monday, 16 September 2013 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar The Lower Indra Irrigation Project (LIIP) authority has failed to suitably rehabilitate the displaced people in Nuapada district. As a result, having lost their hearth and home and cultivable lands for the construction of the dam, thousands of displaced people are now languishing in poverty. Construction of the LIIP was started in 2000 across the river Indra, a major tributary of Tel river of Mahanadi basin, having a catchment area of 1,093 sqkm. The number of displaced people in the beginning was estimated to be 1,460. When the project started disbursing rehabilitation assistance to the displaced people in 2002, the number had already increased to 2,937. The payments to these displaced people were made according to 1994 R&R policy. The number further increased due to delay in land acquisition process and there was a subsequent a...