Chapter 2
Public Participation in Development
Shobhita Jain
Introduction
Most development projects in the past while promising a just resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) of displaced people have failed to honour that commitment. Lately, it has been uniformly argued that in all cases of unavoidable displacement, we need to consider resettlement as a development programme (Saxena 2003: 1). This would entail investment of resources in order to help displaced people to at least restore if not actually improve their income levels and living standards that they had before displacement. It is argued in this chapter that involuntary resettlement, however well-designed and executed, cannot achieve restoration of or improvement in the income levels and ...
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