Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation in Tribal Communities (Special Reference to Various Industries and Kelo of Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh)

Abstract

In present era, development and displacement like both side of coin. Major development projects like industries, dams, railways and roads, army camps required large area of land. In addition, other side Industries required natural resources and labor as industry works. Forest areas are best for this kind of projects. Forest has land, natural resources and labor (displaced/affected tribal peoples). Above condition, attract government or non-government attention in forest area that is the residential area of tribal communities such from long time. The present study conduct of Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, known as an industrial district because the Raigarh district has fourteen major industries including Jindal and one big dam called kelo. Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh has 14 large and small industries of iron, coal, etc. These industries make huge displacement in these areas and tribal groups total 61 villages, and 1406 families are affected by displacement. Total of 1044.436-acre land captures by industrialist for industries and flats of an employee. This study conduct in 31 affected tribal families of 31 villages. This study shows affected families are leaving their traditional agricultural works because they can't understand the nature of new land structure and because of this, they are in economic trouble. In study area, there are 67.7% family's primary occupations was agriculture and after displacement, there are only 9.7% families engage in agricultural work. There are some other problems also finding out in this study, which are related to fundamental needs. According to affected families, new residences have many fundamental problems, which are provided by government and industrialists. There are no electricity, no regular drinking water resources, satisfied roads and transports are no available.