On March 26, the Supreme Court directed the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC) to raise the compensation offered to those whose lands were acquired and submerged by the reservoir to build the 2400 MW Tehri hydro power project in 1983 from Rs 6 per sq foot to Rs 30 per sq foot.
Around 35 villages were fully submerged along with the old Tehri town. Some 70 villages were partially affected. A total of 5,291 affected people, including 2,000 from urban areas, were given Rs 500 crore as compensation at that time.
The Special Land Acquisition Officer, after considering the claim of the land losers, had quantified compensation at Rs.6 per sq foot in 1983. However, those whose lands were acquired later were paid higher compensation.
The project affected protested that the Rs.6 per sq foot rate of compensation was not fair, and sought a reference under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act before the court, seeking determination of fair compensation due to them.
The State of Uttar Pradesh (now State of Uttarakhand) had acquired 5,300 hectares of land to build the dam, reservoir and residential colony for officials and staff of the project, and also 3,300 hectares across Tehri, Dehradun and Rishikesh for the resettlement of people who needed to be rehabilitated.
DS Kundu, additional general manager in charge of rehabilitation of the THDC told TOI, "These 250 people were given compensation at Rs 6/sq foot as per the circle rate of land at that time. Since the process of acquisition of land was interrupted for long years because of opposition from people and other reasons, by the time we acquired properties in other areas, the circle rate had also increased. Others were thus awarded compensation at Rs 30/sq foot."
The court took cognizance of the fact that these 250 people were unduly paid less, for no fault of theirs.
Kundu admitted that the compensation would run into a huge sum, several crores, which, he said, the department was yet to evaluate with the help of legal experts.
To those who lost their homes, however, money will never compensate the loss.
"The people who lost their houses and farms for THDC project have never come to terms with the cumulative loss till date. It was not mere dwellings, but our entire village, the places where many of our families stayed for generations, where we spent our childhood and grew old - that was submerged before our eyes. The fight for compensation was a battle for our dignity. The cost can never be evaluated in the form of money," Jitender Rana, a beneficiary, who has been given land in compensation at Banjarawala in Dehradun, said.
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