Involuntary Migration Evidence from Sardar Sarovar Project

"Sardar Sarovar Project is one of Indias most ambitiously designed engineering projects. It is also worlds most controversial developmental project. While its proponents call it a marvel and see in it a strategy that will enable India meet her growing needs for water, electricity and wage goods, its opponents call it a destructive and uneconomical project that has overestimated its benefits and underestimated its cost, especially cost of relocation and rehabilitation (RR). This book assumes significance because it is one of the first documentations of the second-generation problems of rehabilitation of the project affected people (PAPs). This book aims to unravel what is not apparent in the RR process. It succeeds partly in unearthing some of the risks associated with involuntary migration but many more have still remained hidden. Based on carefully planned fieldwork for over seven years, the book reveals that though the relocation of over 4,500 PAPs from 19 submerging villages ofSah, D. C. is the author of 'Involuntary Migration Evidence from Sardar Sarovar Project' with ISBN 9788170337829 and ISBN 8170337828.