Tata Steel’s Resettlement and Rehabilitation programme during the establishment of the Kalinganagar Industrial Complex has been designed with utmost sensitivity and concern to provide a fair compensation package, every kind of support and more than adequate opportunities for personal and community development. A successful relocation model like that of Tata Steel incorporates the reassurance that for people who have been relocated, quality of life in the new settlement will necessarily be better. Enthused by the values inspired by its founder, Jamsetji Nasserwanji Tata, the Company considers the people affected by upcoming Greenfield projects as part of its own family, the ‘Tata Steel Parivar’.

The Company’s Resettlement and Rehabilitation programme guarantees a ‘better tomorrow’ for local people and is positioned as ‘Tata Steel Parivar’ with a four ‘R-s’ theme:

• Reassuring Communication – ‘Vision for a better tomorrow’.
• Resettling the displaced population with care.
• Rehabilitation – ensuring a better quality of life, income and happiness.
• Recheck implementation through self and independent social audits.

Tata Steel is committed to set up a 6 million tonne per annum integrated steel plant at Kalinganagar Industrial Complex at Duburi, in the Jajpur district. The Steel Works will be established in two modules of 3 million tonnes of steel each and when completed, will have a capacity of 6 million tonnes per annum.

MoU for the steel project was signed between the Government of Odisha and Tata Steel on November 17, 2004. As per the MoU, Odisha Government agreed to provide 3,471.808 acres of land, earlier acquired through the Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa. The proposed plant site happens to be a part of six revenue villages - Gobaraghati, Chandia, Gadapur, Nuagaon, Khurunti and Baragadia - of the Sukinda Tehesil in Jajpur District.

The proposed plant will be located at Duburi, Jajpur district of Odisha, about 120 kms from the state capital, Bhubaneswar. The site is situated by the side of National Highway 200 and is 17 kms from the nearest railway station, Jajpur Road.

When operational, the Kalinganagar Works is projected to generate revenues in the range of Rs 2,200 crores per annum and also provide direct and indirect employment to about 20,000 people.

Extended family, in the context of Rehabilitation & Resettlement at Kalinganagar would mean that each major son of the family, unmarried sister or daughter over 30 years of age, father, mother along with minor children and other members would be considered as a separate family for the purpose of the rehabilitation & resettlement benefits. There are about 250 households on the plant site land. On an average, each of the original family would be eligible to get rehabilitation benefits of 4-5 extended families.

At Kalinganagar Tata Steel has been inviting independent social auditors to re-check the implementation programme taken up by its Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) department. Under the leadership of Padmashree Dr. Tulsi Munda Tata Steel has started a grievance reprisal forum.

Padmashree Dr. Tulsi Munda said that Tata Steel is the only Company, which is keen to bring in socio-economic development for the tribal populace. She said in context of the Kalinganagar project that Tata Steel has brought in a sea change in the living standards of the tribal populace of Kalinganagar.