ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the problems of displacement and rehabilitation in India. It also examines the problem of displacement caused by the government's development projects and the rehabilitation that is made necessary as a result of it, at least in a democratic setup. The chapter deals with the complex notions of development change and continuity in some of their parameters, limits, and compulsions. Development-related displacement has become a phenomenon for concern the world over. Every human being has a right to development, but in order for it to be just and sustainable, it must be development for all—not development for some at the cost of others. The chapter also deals with particular reference to the Sardar Sarovar Project, though it is not confined to it. In the case of the Sardar Sarovar Project in 1960–1961, land was acquired from six villages to construct Kedavia colony, the project office cum residential complex for the Sardar Sarovar Project officials.
