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HUMAN DIMENSION OF DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE: NEEDS NEW MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT?
Authors: Dr. Mohinder Kumar Slariya
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HUMAN DIMENSION OF DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
NEEDS NEW MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT?
Dr. Mohinder Kumar Slariya
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Associate Professor
,
Environmental Sociologist,
Govt. PG College, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh University
To make life more comfortabl
e, since ages, man has been altering the nature in the name of
development. In the era of rapid industrialization consciously or unconsciously,
he unscientifically utilize the
natural resources and resulting into the major problems of 21
st
century includin
g environmental pollution and
global warming on the one hand and creating more problems to the human beings by ignoring human
dimensions which get accelerated in context of climate change. Hydroelectric power development is one such
developmental initiativ
e which is sine
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quo
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none of any development and instrumental to achieve desired goals
of any society or any economy. But such developments at what cost? Human dimension of such development has
remained unaddressed and today it is becoming alarming. This qu
estion has been analyzed in present paper.
The present paper is based on micro study, exploratory in nature, conducted in 22 villages by dividing
in 5 research clusters and interviewing 200 respondents in NHPC owned Chamera
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I power project. It is an
analy
tical analysis of
deprivations received because of it’s construction and put the people in psychological
trauma. The impact can be divided in two broad categories; one, project affects people (PAP), who got
displaced and got compensation, jobs in NHPC and
resettled somewhere in the part of the district or state. The
second category; who have not affected as per the revenue/policy document of NHPC and can be called as Not
Project Affected People (Not
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PAP). But in real sense, they are the people who are facin
g ill effects of this
developmental activity and at present, they are dying every moment, every hour and every day and moreover,
their concerns have never listened and never answered by state govt. as well as by the executors. To address the
issue existing
Lobbyist Pressurized Model of development should be replaced by Benefit Sharing Participatory
Model of development