5.10 The Handover Process
The handover process of various resettlement projects and activities such as the village forest association, health centre and other village infrastructure from NTPC to the resettled villagers as well as district and provincial authorities is well under way. As commendable as this is, the 20th POE has two major concerns with one relating to staffing and the other to monitoring. PM Decree 471 requires the Nakai district staff to take over NTPC’s Watershed Management and Protection Authority’s development obligations for the 32 NPA villages.
The agricultural, education and health staff that are required for this task do not exist; indeed akai district does not have the permanent staff to implement the NTPC Resettlement Office’s current agricultural programme or to staff schools and clinics once the handover occurs. The POE, seeing no clear solution to this issue, is very concerned about the implications for meeting CA requirements for improving the resettled communities’ livelihoods by 2015 and for implementing Social and Environment Framework and First
Operational Plan II (SEMFOP II.
Round 6 (May 2011) of the Nakai Socio Economic Survey turned out to be an impressive
monitoring document. The POE is concerned, however, that the balance between
consumption and income is too heavily favoured on the consumption side. The POE
questions whether “consumption is generally considered to be a better indicator of
household well being than income,” nor does it believe that opinion warrants a “one fits all” conclusion. Indeed, the POE questions whether or not it fits development contexts including large dams, in which early emphasis is placed on significantly improved infrastructure such as roads, schools, clinics, electrification, houses, household furnishings and other purchases and where initial sources of income from construction activities cannot be maintained. In such situations the POE believes not only that equal emphasis be placed on consumption and income, but also that monitoring place more emphasis on maintenance, depreciation and debt. Some comments from the 21st
POE addressed these issues:
"That government officials at the central, provincial and district levels prioritize
discussion on ways in which Nakai district can meet its future budgetary, staff and
capacity responsibilities.
That the next round on the Nakai Socio Economic Survey and all future monitoring,
place equal emphasis on consumption and income and include data on, for example
infrastructure maintenance, depreciation, household debt and access to a range of
stable and legal income sources.
That a special effort be made to delete income from rosewood and other illegal activities from the resettled people’s income and that careful surveying of their debt continues"
(McDowell, Scudder et al. 2011 p.25).
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