Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...cash compensation and provision of economic livelihood; for non landowners, a plot for land for a house and employment. Such options were to be provided to each family member aged 18 and over. 37. Of those displaced prior to Bank involvement through acquisition of land for construction of ash dykes for Phase I of Rihand and Vindhyachal as well as the Singrauli thermal plant by 1993 some had relocated to other areas, most had been moved to resettlement colonies (Chilkadand for Singrauli, Punarwas...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...cash compensation and provision of economic livelihood; for non landowners, a plot for land for a house and employment. Such options were to be provided to each family member aged 18 and over. 73. There is an important difference in treatment between the ReAps and the Phase II RAPs: compensation and rehabilitation for pre-1993 affected people was offered on a family basis, or to Project Affected Families. Benefits under the 1993 RAPs are to be app...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation was given in the form of money to a community which had little experience of handling monetary transactions. Even this money was inadequate to reestablish their former living standards or to purchase replacement land and rebuild lost assets. The WB policy on involuntary resettlement recognises the insufficiency of cash compensation particularly in situations such as Singrauli. The policy stresses the importance of land based compensation schemes, even in areas with a high population...