“The IRR model (The Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations) found by American-Romanian social scientist Michael Cernea can be applied in Telangana. Lakhs of internally-displaced people due to various projects in the State continue to experience the eight inherent risks,” said State Human Rights Forum general secretary S. Tirupathaiah.
“These are landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, social disarticulation, marginalisation, food insecurity, loss of access to common property, and increased morbidity and mortality. In addition, three more field recordings by the HRF across districts in the State are realities,” he said while speaking at the 14th memorial of HRF’s founder and renowned civil rights activist K. Balagopal in the city on Sunday.
“Among all the displaced in Telangana, the worst-affected are women, youths, and people belonging to SC, ST and BC communities,” he said.
