Geographical analysis

Abstract

Acquisition of fertile agricultural land in urban fringe and its conversion to urban uses has become a frequent practice for industrial and urban development in India .Though this development generates employment opportunities but dispossessed farmers face serious threats to their bare survival and social fabric. Present study has made an attempt to analyse the impact of land acquisition, industrialisation and urbanisation on select economic aspects of dispossessed farmers of village Bohar, Baliana and Kheri Sadh. For this purpose both primary and secondary data has been used. Agricultural land has been converted into area under industrial, residential, commercial, plotted land and transport network at a large scale. Primary data has been collected from 126 households through extensive field survey. For this purpose 32 households from large farmers (>5 Acres), 44 households from medium farmers (2-5 Acres) and 50 households from small farmers (<2 Acres) have been surveyed with the help of well structured questionnaire. It has been found that most of the farmers couldn’t utilize their compensation money in a proper manner. The farmers couldn’t get employment in IMT due to lack of technical skills. Thus most of the farmers became unemployed which poses a serious question for their future livelihood.

Key Words: Land Acquisition, Compensation, Industrialisation and Dispossessed Farming Community