ABSTRACT
When the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government came to power in 2004, it made four promises with regard to tribal land alienation: first, to ‘immediately review the overall strategy and programmes for the development of tribal areas to plug loopholes’; second, to work out more viable livelihood strategies; third, to put in place more effective systems of relief and rehabilitation for tribal and other groups displaced by development projects; and, fourth, to rehabilitate the alienated tribals.
