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Paper short abstract

The paper is an attempt to highlight the process of land acquisition and displacement in India with special focus on POSCO and Vedantha.

Paper long abstract

Large-scale land acquisitions made by appropriate governments for providing infrastructural facilities to various industries such as those of POSCO in Jagatsinghpur and Vedanta aluminum in Langigarh in Orissa, and Singur in West Bangal have faced strong resistance /opposition from the affected people. The tireless efforts of victims in the form of peoples movements with the support of civil society across India have highlighted various injustices done to them and criticized the present form of development. However, due to these resistant movements, the government of India (GoI) came with the the land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation (LAR&R) bill in 2011 to frame the LAR&R Act in order to rectify various historical injustices done to the displaced people and also to overcome the defects exited in the earlier R&R policies. The paper discusses the issues in land acquisition and displacement in India with prime focus on POSCO and Vedantha.