The new DMK government in Tamil Nadu has released a draft policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation, which gives legitimacy and structure to an ongoing process of uprooting urban poor and relocating them to far off places.
The new DMK government in Tamil Nadu has released a draft policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation, which gives legitimacy and structure to an ongoing process of uprooting urban poor and relocating them to far off places. Kishore Kumar, a researcher on state informality and peri-urban development, explains how the state deviated from providing good in-situ housing for resettling people, and the role of the World Bank in cornering the already marginalised urban poor.