Date:18/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/05/18/stories/2006051800281001.htm

Back Rehabilitation

As long as we plan to compensate the displaced due to infrastructure development, we will not solve the problem. What we need is to make future development exercises a win-win situation for all, including displaced. Let us not plan to compensate, but plan to provide the facilities that will address the development needs of those displaced. The government should mandate agencies to provide development for the displaced. Beneficiaries should bear the recurring cost of sustaining such development over a period of time; this must be decided through a comprehensive understanding of the problem and the solutions.

Balakrishnan

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