CIL launches more liberal resettling and rehabilitating policy

NEW DELHI: Coal India has introduced a more flexible policy for resettling and rehabilitating people affected by its mining projects, the government said on Thursday.

"CIL has introduced a liberalised new Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) policy...It attempts to consolidate the different resettlement and rehabilitation practices that are being followed by CIL subsidiaries," coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said.

The concept of annuity in lieu of compensation is being introduced to mitigate the ever dependence of families affected by the project.

Other features include land compensation to land outstees as per the provisions of concerned act or state government notification, employment to land oustees against every two acres of land, among others, it added.