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MRR-103:
Participatory Planning of Resettlement and Rehabilitation
The objective of MRR-103, Participatory Planning of
Resettlement and Rehabilitation, is to introduce you to
planned and design of development projects. The Course deals
with the issues and techniques required in the field for the
different stages of planning, implementation and management
of R&R Projects.
a) Block 7, Baseline Survey and Data Analysis, deals
with the various techniques of survey, which are appropriate
for project affected people and project and affected areas.
It entails identification of project affected persons and
acquiring the techniques for collecting primary and
secondary data that are essential for preparing resettlement
and rehabilitation plans.
b) Block 8, Making a Participatory R&R Plan, focuses
on the various steps to be followed in making a resettlement
action plan and a checklist of actions to be taken to the
field. Further, it emphasises the need and benefits of
database management systems and concludes with a description
of data operations using MS Excel.
c) Block 9, Valuation of Assets, discusses the types
of assets acquired for development projects, the nature of
compensation paid for the acquired property and the
different methods of calculating compensation. It deals with
the valuation of quantifiable assets through market-
determined processes as well as valuation of
non-quantifiable assets through non-marked indirect methods.
In addition, the Block provides the perspective of financial
institutions that have high stakes in resettlement and
rehabilitation aspects of infrastructure projects.
d) Block 10, Legal Framework of R&R, Elaborates the
content of laws related with resettlement and rehabilitation
to emphasise the scope of minimsing the trauma and suffering
entailed and displacement and to regulate the processes so
that displaced families receive maximum benefits.
Administrative procedures involved in the R&R related laws
are quite comprehensive and the Karnataka case-study
explains the various aspects of the procedures. |