Impact of Resettlement on Housing Conditions : A Study of Resettled Families of Sardar Sarovar Project

The construction of Sardar Sarovar Project on River Narmada forced the residents in reservoir area to leave their ancestral place of residence and to migrate at alien environment. These people restarted their life at different places by constructing new houses. The present paper tries to examine the changes occurred in housing status with civic amenities and sanitation facilities at household level. This empirical study has been carried out through random sample survey to find out the temporal changes in housing conditions among the resettled families. It is observed that the people shifted / replaced the local to market material for house construction. Civic amenities (such as electricity connections and drinking water availability) and sanitation facilities have improved at resettlement sites among these families.