Displacement and Deprivation in Jharkhand

Abstract

As a result, most of the project site people forcefully displaced and the lost their land and livelihood. People who are uprooted and rehabilitated in other place have to undergo the entire process of resocialisation and adjustment in an unfamiliar environment. It implies a destruction of traditional source of livelihood, folk wisdom and folk culture to deal with day-to-day problems of individual. Displacement may be either physical or economic. Physical displacement is the actual physical relocation of people resulting in a loss of shelter, productive assets or access to productive assets (such as land, water, and forest). Economic displacement results from an action that interrupts or eliminates access to productive assets without physically relocating the people themselves. The Jadugura Uranium mining project, that displaced people systematically over a period of time, disrupting their social fabric and economic bases and impoverishes them, is unacceptable. This paper tries to examine the dynamic of social life of the displaced people in the light of UCIL mining and processing unit.