E-Paper
?Implement economic rehab package?
NARMADA CONTROL Authority (NCA) has asked the State Government to implement economic rehabilitation package for Sardar Sarovar Project Affected Families (PAFs), as an exercise to build confidence in them and help them overcome the initial trauma of displacement once they settle down at rehabilitation sites. The package includes reservation of seats for oustees in industrial training institutes to make them self-employed.
NARMADA CONTROL Authority (NCA) has asked the State Government to implement economic rehabilitation package for Sardar Sarovar Project Affected Families (PAFs), as an exercise to build confidence in them and help them overcome the initial trauma of displacement once they settle down at rehabilitation sites. The package includes reservation of seats for oustees in industrial training institutes to make them self-employed.
The PAFs have been asked to shift by June 30. Gujarat and Maharashtra have already introduced the package endorsed by Supreme Court.
NCA Director (rehabilitation) Dr Afroz Ahmed informed that employable skill formation, entrepreneurship development, vocational training and women’s emancipation are key aspects of PAFs’ economic rehabilitation.
As per the package, they would not only be assisted in social forestry, horticulture, sericulture or irrigation system, but the project authorities would also help the displaced in marketing their produce and services.
Besides, they would arrange for short-term training courses in carpentry, mechanical repairs, tailoring, basket making, brick and tile making, bee keeping, fodder farming, cattle breeding and Khadi weaving.
In order to provide them access to institutional and banking finance, the project authorities would help them secure bank loans for setting up small business or getting small contracts from district panchayat without requiring them to bid in tenders.
In addition, project authorities will ensure that PAFs have access to government welfare schemes at new locations. This includes schemes like Integrated Rural Development Plan, Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Tribal Development Plan, Integrated Child Development Schemes and subsidies to farmers.
Improving women’s skills, raising their educational standard and making them partners in economic development has received a special mention in the chapter on economic rehabilitation. The government has been asked to train and employ more women at grassroots level and be given chance to work with male community leaders for an integrated growth of affected families.
