| State frames guidelines for socio-economic survey | |
| BS Reporter / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar November 21, 2008, 0:20 IST | |
The Orissa government has come out with guidelines for conduct of socio-economic survey, socio-cultural and resource mapping and infrastructural survey in the project area as envisaged in the Orissa Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Policy, 2006.
The guidelines on socio-economic survey, prepared by the revenue and disaster management department, will be applicable to all projects involving acquisition of private land/lease of government land and involuntary displacement of people, official sources said.
Stating that the socio-economic survey (SES) will be limited to the study of affected and displaced families in the project area only, the guidelines say that it will include member of families who are permanently residing prior to the publication of notice under section 4 (1) of the land acquisition act, 1894 or under relevant provisions of any other act of the Union or state in force for the time being.
This will also include families who are likely to lose or have lost, fully or partially their house, agricultural land, employment or are alienated wholly or substantially from the main sources of their trade, business, occupation, and vacation including income derived from formal sector and non-farm activities.
Only professionally trained and experienced social scientific body or organisation should be selected with the team leader preferably being a doctorate degree holder in psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work or economics.
It stipulated that the consultant and his investigators, associates must be proficient in the local language used by the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) and Project Affected Families (PAFs). While they should have sufficient experience and exposure in conducting social research of this type, they must study the R &R policy of the state government.
For selection of surveyors tenders for technical and financial bid will be invited from interested organizations.
According to the guidelines, the selected agency will study the R&R policy, major legal requirement, terms and conditions of the assignment and the time schedule among others.
It will also have to collect secondary data like record of rights, village map, list of houses, list of BPL families, voters’ list, list of ration cards, anthropological data and census data available with different government offices for The data collections should be organised properly and each investigator may be given daily targets and specific area or list of families to be interviewed. Difficulties like agitation and protest against the data collection must be notified to the controlling authority immediately, it stated.
The data scrutiny, editing and coding should be done daily during the collection stage so that the necessity to go back to the respondent is avoided. It further states that the report to be submitted by the agency should have three formats like academic report, comprehensive report and entitlement matrix and it will be considered as preliminary report till it is verified.
An independent multi-disciplinary expert group, constituted by the RPDAC or government, will examine the socio-economic survey report. The panel will have two non-official social science and rehabilitation experts, secretary, scheduled tribes and scheduled caste development department or his representative and a representative of the land requiring body.
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