EXTRAORDINARY

 

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

 

 

No.21392-R.Reh.-149/06-R&DM.

 

GOVERNMENT OF ORISSA

REVENUE & DISASTER MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

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RESOLUTION

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The 4th June 2007

 

                 In pursuance of Para. 22 (b) of the Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy, 2006, the State Government do hereby make the following amendments in the Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy, 2006, namely :-

 

AMENDMENTS

 

1.  In the Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy, 2006, (hereinafter referred to as the said Policy), in Para. 1 under the heading “Short title, application and commencement”, -

 

(a)     in clause (ii), after the words “those projects” and before the words “for which acquisition of private land”, the words “including ongoing irrigation projects” shall be inserted ;

 

       (b) after clause (ii), the following proviso and note shall be inserted, namely :-

 

“Provided that no rehabilitation assistance shall be provided to the ongoing irrigation projects as per this policy where any rehabilitation assistance has been provided to the displaced family or affected family in respect of ongoing project immediately before commencement of this policy.”

          

NOTE – For the purpose of this Para., the expression “ongoing projects shall not include the projects which are completed prior to commencement of this policy and ‘commencement of this policy’ means the 15^th May, 2006.”

 

2.  In the said policy, in Para. 2 under the heading “definition”, after clause (a) the following clause shall be inserted, namely :-

 

“(a-1) ‘affected family’ means a family whose land is affected by construction of the project but not displaced or required to be displaced.”

 

3.   In the said policy, in Para. 8, in sub-para. III, Type C, -

 

(a) for the heading “Water Resources, National Parks and Sanctuary”, the heading “Irrigation Projects, National Parks and Sanctuary” shall be substituted;

 

(b) for the words “Rehabilitation Package for Displaced Family (DF)”, the words “Rehabilitation Package for Displaced Family and Affected Family” shall be substituted; and

 

(c) after item (d), the following items shall be inserted, namely :-

 

“(e) Training for self-employment-Project authority under the guidance of the Collector concerned may make adequate arrangements to provide vocational training or skill development training to willing displaced or affected families so as to equip them to start their own small enterprise and refine their skills to take advantage of new job opportunities. For those engaged in traditional occupations, handicrafts or handlooms, the project authority shall arrange suitable training programme at his own cost to upgrade their skills.

 

(f) An affected family who is losing more than seventy-five per centum of his total extent of land in the irrigation project area he shall get the benefit as provided in items (a), (b), (c) and (d).

 

(g) An affected family who is losing less than seventy-five per centum of his total extent of land in the irrigation project area, other than for the purpose of canal, he shall get land to equal extent of acquired land subject to maximum as provided in items (a) or (c), as the case may be, and also benefit of registration cost as provided in item (d).

 

(h) An affected family who is losing homestead land, on account of acquisition for canal, where he ordinarily resides shall get benefit as provided in times (a), (b) and (d).”

 

4.  In the said policy, in Para. 11, after the works “nature of displacement”, the works “and to the affected families in irrigation project area keeping in view the gravity of damage” shall be inserted.

 

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ORDER-Ordered that the Resolution be published in the extraordinary issue of Orissa Gazette for the general information of the public and copies of the same be forwarded to Government of India, Ministry of Rural Development/ Ministry of Tribal Affairs/ Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment/ all Heads of departments/ all Revenue Divisional Commissioners/ all Collectors/ Secretary, Board of Revenue/ CMD, IDCO/CMD, IPICOL/ A.-G., Orissa, Bhubaneswar/ D.A.-G. (Works), Orissa, Puri for information.

 

By order of the Governor

 

G.V.V. SARMA

Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government