Agony of PAPs

Let me first expand the world popularly known in Industries for R&R work and later as a part of CSR work.  PAPs is project affected people. As the initial step of land acquisition process for establishing a plant, the land of villagers are taken and their homes are also crushed down. In recognition these people are given compensation according to the policy and some part the way it is negotiated with the villagers. So those whose land has been taken or homes are crushed are listed or recognized as project affected people by the company for extending special attention in future. 

The days of neglect is over when there was none to listen the pain of displaced people and also they were not given compensation. Now the reputation of companies are on stake how they are treated to their PAPs and people living in the village in the vicinity of the company. So as a part of R&R policy, PAPs were given land to make home, some of them also got regular job in the company, company hires their vehicles on priority basis, contractors have to compulsorily  give job to PAPs and many development schemes are taken by companies for overall development of PAPs in the field of education. PAPs get medical facilities in the company on discounted rate while their co-villagers have to pay full fees (company do not recognize the indirect damage done to the villagers and hence they are in not priority list for R&R work).

In spite of all these facilities given to the villagers, how meager work have been done, but it has raised their living standard, but still they are unsatisfied. 

Why? PAPs have agony. Why? This question be addressed well. When  requested for joining the department, many authorities suggested not to go their as PAPs would pressure for meeting their demand. Seldom they care what is their pain, how could they be addressed? 

The agony is emotional. Our Indian society was agrarian society. Land was considered sacred. It was not thought to sell land offered by parents. If we think as economic man, land offered by parents are the initial capital and selling those land shows their incapacity to produce more and earn a lot. Later this economic tendency would have turned into emotional relationship. Again humans remind their past by the story written on the wall, on the roof of their home and parting with them means parting with the their history, their ancestors. 

In stead of their home, now engineers were given quarters to live. Engineers are human being having much advanced facility. The exposure to high standard living gave dream to PAPs. Children of  engineers are going in good convent school, but PAPs living outside the boundary are unable to send their children in those schools due to hefty amount. (It is most probable that their children might not excel in academy even they get education from these school with the guidance from home, but PAPs thinks their children would progress as they are not able to pay hefty fees). The situation becomes even worse when the fees is hiked for them, but the fees of children remained the same. This is the other major reason which gives agony to PAPs.

The PAPs talk with all with a sense of ownership. 

If honestly speaking companies has to do much more to be a responsible organization not only for PAPs, but also the other villagers living in the close vicinity (say 5 or 10 km). Ultimately the profit will go in treasury, so why not spend a large part of them say (10% in stead of .5%) directly on behalf of companies for the overall development of local children and community.