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National Rehabilitation and Resettlement policy
The objectives of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy are:
1. To minimise displacement and to promote, as far as possible, non-displacing or least-displacing alternatives.
2. To ensure adequate rehabilitation package and expeditious implementation of the rehabilitation process with the active participation of the affected families.
3. To ensure that special care is taken for protecting the rights of the weaker sections of society, especially members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and to create .obligations on the State for their treatment with concern and sensitivity.
4. To provide a better standard of living, making concerted efforts for providing sustainable income to the affected families.
5. To integrate rehabilitation concerns into the development planning and implementation process.
6. Where displacement is on account of land acquisition, to facilitate harmonious relationship between the requiring body and affected families through mutual cooperation.
Major Provisions
1. Social Impact Assessment(SIA) of Projects Whenever it is desired to undertake a new project or expansion of an existing project, which involves involuntary displacement of four hundred or more families en masse in plain areas, or two hundred or more families en masse in tribal or hilly areas, DDP blocks or areas mentioned in the Schedule V or Schedule VI to the Constitution, the appropriate Government shall ensure that a SIA is carried out. Where it is required as per the provisions of any law, rules, regulations or guidelines to undertake environmental impact assessment also, the SIA study shall be carried out simultaneously with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study.
2. Appointment of Administrator and Commissioner for Rehabilitation and Resettlement and their powers and functions
Appoint, by notification, by the State Government(s) concerned, in respect of that project, an officer not below the rank of District Collector of the State Government to be the Administrator for Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R):
3. Rehabilitation and Resettlement Plan
4. Rehabilitation and Resettlement Benefits for the Affected Families
Any affected family owning house and whose house has been acquired or lost, may be allotted free of cost house site to the extent of actual loss of area of the acquired house but not more than
· 250 SQM of land in rural areas,
· 150 SQM of land in urban areas
Each affected below poverty line family which is without homestead land and which has been residing in the affected area continuously for a period of not less than three years preceding the date of declaration of the affected area and which has been involuntarily displaced from such area, shall be entitled to a
· house of minimum 100 SQM carpet area in rural areas, or
· 50 SQM carpet area in urban areas (which may be offered, where applicable, in a multi-storied building complex),
in the resettlement area:
5. Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee at the Project Level:
An Ombudsman shall be appointed by the appropriate Government, in the manner as may be prescribed, for time-bound disposal of the grievances arising out of the matters covered by this policy
6. Monitoring Mechanism
Formation of National Monitoring Committee
The Central Government shall constitute a National Monitoring Committee, to be chaired by the Secretary, Department of Land Resources for reviewing and monitoring the progress of implementation of rehabilitation and resettlement schemes or plans relating to all cases to which this policy applies.
The objectives of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy are:
1. To minimise displacement and to promote, as far as possible, non-displacing or least-displacing alternatives.
2. To ensure adequate rehabilitation package and expeditious implementation of the rehabilitation process with the active participation of the affected families.
3. To ensure that special care is taken for protecting the rights of the weaker sections of society, especially members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and to create .obligations on the State for their treatment with concern and sensitivity.
4. To provide a better standard of living, making concerted efforts for providing sustainable income to the affected families.
5. To integrate rehabilitation concerns into the development planning and implementation process.
6. Where displacement is on account of land acquisition, to facilitate harmonious relationship between the requiring body and affected families through mutual cooperation.
Major Provisions
1. Social Impact Assessment(SIA) of Projects Whenever it is desired to undertake a new project or expansion of an existing project, which involves involuntary displacement of four hundred or more families en masse in plain areas, or two hundred or more families en masse in tribal or hilly areas, DDP blocks or areas mentioned in the Schedule V or Schedule VI to the Constitution, the appropriate Government shall ensure that a SIA is carried out. Where it is required as per the provisions of any law, rules, regulations or guidelines to undertake environmental impact assessment also, the SIA study shall be carried out simultaneously with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study.
2. Appointment of Administrator and Commissioner for Rehabilitation and Resettlement and their powers and functions
Appoint, by notification, by the State Government(s) concerned, in respect of that project, an officer not below the rank of District Collector of the State Government to be the Administrator for Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R):
3. Rehabilitation and Resettlement Plan
4. Rehabilitation and Resettlement Benefits for the Affected Families
Any affected family owning house and whose house has been acquired or lost, may be allotted free of cost house site to the extent of actual loss of area of the acquired house but not more than
· 250 SQM of land in rural areas,
· 150 SQM of land in urban areas
Each affected below poverty line family which is without homestead land and which has been residing in the affected area continuously for a period of not less than three years preceding the date of declaration of the affected area and which has been involuntarily displaced from such area, shall be entitled to a
· house of minimum 100 SQM carpet area in rural areas, or
· 50 SQM carpet area in urban areas (which may be offered, where applicable, in a multi-storied building complex),
in the resettlement area:
5. Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee at the Project Level:
An Ombudsman shall be appointed by the appropriate Government, in the manner as may be prescribed, for time-bound disposal of the grievances arising out of the matters covered by this policy
6. Monitoring Mechanism
Formation of National Monitoring Committee
The Central Government shall constitute a National Monitoring Committee, to be chaired by the Secretary, Department of Land Resources for reviewing and monitoring the progress of implementation of rehabilitation and resettlement schemes or plans relating to all cases to which this policy applies.