The debates revolving around large dams in India with examples

MSO-003: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

Course Code: MSO-003

Assignment Code: MSO-003/AST/TMA/2016-17

Total Marks: 100

Q. 7. Bring out the debates revolving around large dams in India, with suitable examples.

Ans. There are number of debates on the impact of dams in economy, society and environment. These debates have brought some arguments in favour of some against the dams.

(a) Resistance and Displacement: Although enthusiasm for mega-dam projects amongst policy-makers remains largely undimmed, a formidable body of independent empirical research into many of these large dams has established how their social, human and environmental costs have been ignored or grossly understated in the planning of these projects, and the expected benefits exaggerated. Of the very many neglected costs of the big dams, some of the most grave are the social and human consequences of displacement. We will restrict ourselves to an analysis of these human and social impacts of displacement, and especially to those that result directly or indirectly from the omissions or commissions of policy.

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