Many villages and households have already reached or surpassed the project’s income
targets, but progress so far has been uneven. The resettlement programme continues to
register positive progress on post resettlement livelihood restoration and movement towards
income targets set out in the CA, and efforts remain focused on making new livelihoods
sustainable. An extensive livelihood monitoring programme is in place, and available socio-economic data shows that the resettled people’s income is clearly above the baseline
income levels. Please refer to a fuller discussion of these issues in the “Nam Theun 2
Resettlement: Taking Stock at the Halfway Point 2010"79
. While full analysis of recently
collected survey information should have become available late 2012, initial results indicate
that specific quantifiable income targets for households have already been met for almost all
people (of the roughly 6,300 resettled people on the Nakai plateau). The data also shows
that a very high proportion of resettled people in different income categories still consider
themselves better off following resettlement [see Figure 23]. However, there is considerable
variation in incomes across villages, households and time periods. NTPC intends to
undertake further research to better understand why that is the case. The livelihood
improvement targets (representing a significant increase over baseline income levels) in the
CA should have been measured in 2013 in order to judge whether the contractual
resettlement implementation period can come to an end.
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