Ghatsila (Jharkhand), December 08: The UPA government has decided to form a National Rehabilitation Commission to ensure adequate compensation and proper rehabilitation to people willing to part with their land for development, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said today.
“The commission would ensure that villagers who are willing to part with their land for development were compensated adequately and rehabilitated properly,” she said.
“We want development but not at the cost of displacement of tribals,” Gandhi said while addressing a election meeting here in East Singhbhum district in support of party candidates including JPCC chief Pradip Kumar Balmuchu, who is seeking re-election from Ghatsila (reserved) constituency.
Referring to the prevailing Naxal activities, she said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already said development work and law and order machinery will go along simultaneously.
–PTI