National Commission to rehabilitate land losers: Sonia

Ghatsila (Jharkhand), Dec 8 (PTI) The United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has decided to form a
National Rehabilitation Commission to ensure adequate
compensation and proper rehabilitation to people willing to
part with their land for development, Congress president Sonia
Gandhi said Tuesday.

"The commission would ensure that villagers who are
willing to part with their land for development were
compensated adequately and rehabilitated properly," she said.
"We want development but not at the cost of
displacement of tribals," Gandhi said while addressing a
election meeting here in East Singhbhum district in east India
in support of party candidates including JPCC chief Pradip
Kumar Balmuchu, who is seeking re-election from Ghatsila
(reserved) constituency.
Referring to the prevailing Naxal activities, she said
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already said
development work and law and order machinery will go along
simultaneously.
The UPA government was ready for talks with Naxal
outfits to find out an amicable solution to their problems but
they would have to shun violence first, the AICC chief said.
Gandhi said the Congress was committed to development
and maintaining peace so that benefits of various schemes
reach the poor and tribals of the country.
But opposition parties did not have the will power to
carry out development and that was why they indulged in
driving wedges within society on caste, religion and regional
lines to gain political mileage, she said. PTI BS
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