CONTENTS: List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes vii List of Abbreviations xi Foreword by Muchkund Dubey xv PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT AND DISPLACEMENT Introduction and Overview by Hari Mohan Mathur 3 IAREAS OF MAJOR CONCERN 1. Development, Displacement, and Resettlement: A Human Rights Perspective by Upendra Baxi 17 2. The Land Acquisition Act 1894: Displacement and State Power by Usha Ramanathan 27 3. Towards a Just Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy for India by Shekhar Singh 39 4. Reforming Resettlement: Supplementing Compensation with Investments and Benefit Sharing by Michael M. Cernea 5. Protest against Displacement by Development Projects: The Indian Case by T.K. Oommen 75 II DIMENSIONS AND IMPACTS OF DISPLACEMENT 6. Sixty Years of Development-induced Displacement in India: Scale, Impacts, and the Search for Alternatives by Walter Fernandes 89 7. Cultural Genocide: The Real Impact of Development-induced Displacement by Felix Padel and Samarendra Das 103 8. Nutrition and Health Impacts of Involuntary Resettlement: The Tehri Dam Experience by Satish Kedia 116 9. Development Projects and Displaced Women by Ritu Dewan 127 III DISPLACEMENT IMPACTS IN DIFFERENT PROJECT TYPES 10.Urban Development Projects and Displacement of the Poor by Dunu Roy 141 11.Displacement and Resettlement Issues in Road Sector Projects by Surinder Agganval and Mohammad Zaman 155 12.Conservation-induced Displacement in India's Protected Areas by Mahesh Rangarajan and Ghazala Shahabuddin 166 IV THE WAY FORWARD 13.Managing the Consequences of Development-induced Displacement by Hari Mohan Mathur 179 PART Two: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE PAST Two YEARS An Introductory Note by Hari Mohan Mathur 197 VNEW LEGAL ENACTMENTS 14.The Right to Information Act 2005: A Social Development Perspective by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, and Suchi Pande 205 15.The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: Guaranteeing the Right to Livelihood by Ashok K. Pankaj 221 VI DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EDUCATION AND HEALTH SECTORS 16. Common School System in Bihar: Norms, Standards, and Financial Implications by The Bihar Common School System Commission 251 1 7. Health Sector: Issues and Challenges by C. Sathyamala and N.J. Kurian 275 Social Development Index (SDI) 293 Appendix 308 Notes on Contributors 312