Land acquisition, livelihood and income: the case of JSW Bengal Steel Plant at Salboni Block, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Sumanta Prakash Shee () and Ramkrishna Maiti ()
Additional contact information
Sumanta Prakash Shee: Vidyasagar University
Ramkrishna Maiti: Vidyasagar University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2019, vol. 21, issue 6, No 20, 2997-3014

Abstract: Abstract The paper analyses the land use changes and subsequent impacts on local livelihoods due to land acquisition for JSW Bengal Steel plant at Salboni block of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, which was unproportionately delayed and ultimately suspended in 2014. The industrial plant acquired 4225 acres of land to set up a 10.0 mtpa (million ton per annum) integrated steel plant in the year of 2012. A stratified random sampling survey of both within and outside of project affected household (HH) was done before (2007) and after land acquisition (2012). Almost 700 HH lost their farm land, fodder farm and grazing land due to land acquisition. They spent the compensation money for unproductive purposes. The total monthly income of the family is reduced by 50%, only a selective few could manage to increase non-farm income. After losing, their farm land farmers were temporarily engaged as construction labours within the project area. Following suspension of the project perhaps, due to global recession and insufficiency of raw materials, most of these families become jobless.

Keywords: Compensation money; Land use change; Grazing land; Farm land; Non-farm income; Suspension; Jobless (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-018-0176-1 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:endesu:v:21:y:2019:i:6:d:10.1007_s10668-018-0176-1

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10668

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-018-0176-1

Access Statistics for this article

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development is currently edited by Luc Hens

More articles in Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().