A Study on the Displaced People in Kannagi Nagar
A STUDY ON THE DISPLACED PEOPLE IN KANNAGI NAGAR
INTRODUCTION:
Each year, millions of people are forced from their homes and places of livelihood by the impact of disasters associated with natural hazards. Development gains may be wiped out in a moment or eroded if communities are not resilient and prepared. Disaster-induced displacement undermines sustainable development and inhibits a community’s ability to recover by depriving it of its most important resource: its people.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, “development” is defined as “a specified state of growth or advancement”. India, being a developing country has always been a mixed bag of diversity. But in Chennai, as in many other Indian cities, which is the capital of Tamilnadu (said to be one of the fast developing states in India), and the gateway to south India as well as the fourth largest metropolis of India, there is a totally different meaning given to “development”. Does development mean, improving a section of the people at the expense of others, who are voiceless?
In this context, we find development to be meaningless in the sense that only certain areas are being developed, while affecting others, especially the unorganized workers. In the name of development, big multinationals and agencies are exploiting the agricultural land, driving away the poor farmers and villagers to cities. The voiceless and mostly illiterate villagers have almost no weapon to voice out their sorrowful state. In most cases, the land is taken forcibly with less or no compensation given, with the aid of the local politicians and the government and sold to the multinationals at high prices for their own profit. India, said to be the land of villages, is slowly loosing its backbone, which is cultivation. The villagers have no choice but to migrate to the cities and towns in search of livelihood, while some others commit suicide, unable to fight the government and the multinationals.
When they reach
INTRODUCTION:
Each year, millions of people are forced from their homes and places of livelihood by the impact of disasters associated with natural hazards. Development gains may be wiped out in a moment or eroded if communities are not resilient and prepared. Disaster-induced displacement undermines sustainable development and inhibits a community’s ability to recover by depriving it of its most important resource: its people.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, “development” is defined as “a specified state of growth or advancement”. India, being a developing country has always been a mixed bag of diversity. But in Chennai, as in many other Indian cities, which is the capital of Tamilnadu (said to be one of the fast developing states in India), and the gateway to south India as well as the fourth largest metropolis of India, there is a totally different meaning given to “development”. Does development mean, improving a section of the people at the expense of others, who are voiceless?
In this context, we find development to be meaningless in the sense that only certain areas are being developed, while affecting others, especially the unorganized workers. In the name of development, big multinationals and agencies are exploiting the agricultural land, driving away the poor farmers and villagers to cities. The voiceless and mostly illiterate villagers have almost no weapon to voice out their sorrowful state. In most cases, the land is taken forcibly with less or no compensation given, with the aid of the local politicians and the government and sold to the multinationals at high prices for their own profit. India, said to be the land of villages, is slowly loosing its backbone, which is cultivation. The villagers have no choice but to migrate to the cities and towns in search of livelihood, while some others commit suicide, unable to fight the government and the multinationals.
When they reach