Paper short abstract:

This paper is to study about the Development, Displacement led to Indigenous People's Movements in Odisha revolving around livelihood; water land and forests.It also looks to which people are losing their basic rights on traditional livelihood due to the process of industrializati.

Paper long abstract:

Specifically in Odisha, severe environmental destruction is being caused by industries and big dams in the name of development. People of rural Odisha could only depend on the tradition form of livelihood as a sustained means of survival. Development projects in the present era for e.g. Industries, Dams and Mining have been physically displaced million of forest dwellers, tribal, dalits and peasants in Odisha, India, since independence, have thrown out from their habitat reducing them not only houses but without food and occupation as well. The development and displacement led to people's movements which are carried out primarily by those directly affected by the establishment of industries, dams & mines in that localities including the rural peasant, the forest tribal, dalits, their women folk and so on. It also include the allied hearing space where voluntary organization, the media, social activists, professional, civil and human rights groups and academician who have created a public space that supports the displaced people.