Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Monetary compensation is often delayed and cannot sustain families; displaced people lack marketable skills and become low-paid migrant labourers, while development benefits accrue to industries and urban communities. If tasked with drafting a better compensation-cum-rehabilitation policy, how would you approach the problem and what main elements would your policy contain?
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Monetary com’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.
Demand-wise check
- 1From the exact case cue ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Monetar’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Monetar’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Monetar’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- For the case cue ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Mo’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘Land for mining, dams and other large projects is acquired mainly from Adivasis, hill dwellers and rural communities. Mo’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
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Official source anchors
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