L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1041
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*Damodar Valley Development Scheme
- Babu Ram Narayan Singh : Will the Honourable the Labour Member please state:
(a) the present stage of the Damodar Valley Development Scheme;
(b) if the preliminary survey is complete;
(c) the total amount of cultivated land acquired and to be acquired in all the districts concerned ;
(d) the number of villages in all the districts to be affected;
(e) the number of people (i) who will be deprived of their homes ;
(ii) who will be deprived of their lands, and (iii) who will be deprived of both their homes and lands ;
(f) if there is any scheme for the rehabilitation of the people to be ejected;
(g) if he is aware of the feelings of the people of all the localities to be affected and also of the resolution of the Bihar Provincial Congress Working Committee on the scheme; and
(h) if he has considered the desirability or otherwise of postponing the working of the scheme till popular Governments begin functioning in Provinces and at the Centre ?
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : (a) A premilinary investigation is in progress.
(b) No.
(c), (d) and (e). Detailed information on these points is now being collected.
(f) No scheme has yet been finally drawn up but the matter is under the active consideration of Government and I can asure the Honourable Member that Government will keep prominently in mind the necessity of adequate rehabilitation of those dispossessed.
(g) Government have seen some press communications on this subject.
(h) Only preliminary investigations are now carried out and Government do not consider it desirable to postpone them or such action as may appear necessary on a consideration of them.
*Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. V of 1946, 3rd April 1946, p. 3422.