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Displacement is inherent in the policy of development which is guided by neoliberal economic reforms under globalization.It is basically accumulation by dispossession and forceful expulsion of rural people from their land.The commodification of land is fuelling the land acquisition and forceful expulsion from land favour a minority group while millions of people pay the price without reaping any benefits.Along with land grabbing, resettlement and rehabilitation policies are integrally related.In India, the rehabilitation and resettlement policies were not framed properly and Indian government had also amended the existing land acquisition act for diluting the rehabilitation and resettlement clause.This inadequate rehabilitation and resettlement measures increases vulnerabilities for the displaced persons and this necessitates the role of fair compensation for the displaced person.This paper highlights the role of comprehensive compensation (not only cash) and its implementation, failure of which can increase the tensions between government and citizens and reduce public confidence in the rule of acquisition.In this regard displacement and land acquisition in Singur and Haldia deserves a special role.The negative effects of this displacement can be mitigated by using sustainable development principles.In this paper an attempt has been made to relate land acquisition with rehabilitation policies and also to highlight on the sustainable development policies for overall development of the displaced person and the population for the host country.Apart from this, the paper focuses on formulating fair compensation principle and also provides case studies illustrating, the socio economic decline of the displaced person as relocated communities face the task of restoring livelihood less favourable in new area and on the other hand and increase in well being and wealth in post displacement context from the pre displacement level if the policy intervention is inclusive in nature.So displacement cannot be seen always as a necessary evil if it is guided by proper rehabilitation.
Goswami et al. (Tue,) studied this question.