Centre's new draft rehabilitation policy half baked

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Centre's new draft rehabilitation policy half baked [1]

the United Progressive Alliance government has come up with a watered-down draft of a national rehabilitation policy after dumping an earlier version prepared by the National Advisory Council (nac) in December 2005. Civil society groups are incensed. They see the draft as another manifestation of the centre's cloak and dagger tactics on the rehabilitation issue. The key deviations are on issues of enforceable rights and compensation

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Author(s): Nitin Sethi [2]

Source: Down to Earth [3]

Tags:

Displacement [4], Rehabilitation [5], Ministry Of Rural Development [6], NGO [7], India [8]

Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/centres-new-draft-rehabilitation-policy-half-baked

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