Jharkhand R&R policy for recurring payments to landowners

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Apart from paying compensation for the land at rates to be fixed by the government, the Jharkhand draft resettlement & rehabilitation (R&R) policy would make it manadatory for investors to shell out a recurring compensation to the landowner, apart providing one-tenth of the land being taken over from him for the project.

‘‘We are trying to introduce provisions whereby, apart from receiving a one-time compensation for the land from the investor, the owner of the land continues to receive some payment on a recurring basis,’’ Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda told FE.

Asked how different the Jharkhand draft policy was from the recent central guidelines on the subject, Koda said, ‘‘We are giving more facilities than that provided in the central government document.’’ The draft policy, which talks in terms of ‘family’ as a unit, also speaks of paying compensation to people who were losing dwelling places/means of livelihood/small holdings, etc. According to Koda, the investor would, under the policy, be required to build technical training facilities for those being recruited from the displaced families, apart from giving employment in the project to at least one individual per family.