Polavaram displaced demand compensation - The Hindu

  Polavaram displaced demand compensation - The Hindu

 Polavaram displaced demand compensation

 B.V.S. BHASKAR 

The displaced tribal people under Polavaram Major Irrigation Project are planning to launch an agitation for the implementation of new relief and rehabilitation act of 2013 after the Union Government declared it as national project.

Though some of the evacuees got payment under the 1894 Relief and Rehabilitation Act, the displaced came to know about their legitimate right of getting full compensation under the new Act and demanding the State government to implement the same in total.

The displaced tribal people came to Rajahmundry on Tuesday and met Pentapati Pulla Rao, president of Forum on Social and Human Rights to know about the status of implementation of rehabilitation and resettlement scheme. He explained the salient features of the Gazzette of India, Letter from Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development and the 2013 New Act. It was clearly stated that the new Land Law of 2013 should be applied by the State governments and people who are under threat of evacuation should be paid compensation irrespective of whether they have signed the papers or not.