Dams, Displacement & Rehabilitation: A Review

In the on-going discourse on development and the search for a suitable model for sustainable development, the problems relating to displacement and rehabilitation have acquired crucial significance. Though a vast amount of literature is available on the concept of development and its benefits, there is a striking paucity of adequate and reliable of data on the problems created by it, especially displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation. Against this background, the present article deals with the trends of research findings drawn on the basis of review of trends of relevant literature on dams, displacement resettlement and rehabilitations