The Hindu Business Line : Development and rehabilitation

This is with reference to "Going beyond the status quo," (Business Line, May 1): The author has suggested non-farm alternative such as townships for the displaced.

In fact, if norms laid down by the World Bank that rehabilitation must result in a situation in which those ousted live in a better state than they did before displacement is followed there would be no need for any struggle or agitation.

In China, it is said that construction of the gigantic Three Gorges Dam is proceeding hand-in-hand with the equally gigantic task of rehabilitating some 1.2 million people displaced by the project.

If other countries could do it why can't we? They displace have equal rights. The cost of rehabilitation should be shared by all the States that benefit.

The country should devise a better rehabilitation policy based on the World Bank norms and implement it.

A. Jacob Sahayam

Thiruvananthapuram

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