Published Paper Details:

Post-independence industrialisation and aggressive industrialisation with the onset of globalisation have led to rubbed development in the tribal inhabited areas of the state. It has been a continuous observation that industrial development in Odisha has proved to be detrimental to the tribal population by uniformly affecting their human rights, quality of life, and security in myriad forms. Industries have been established in the hinterlands of the state rich in terms of physical and human resources. These hinterlands are the tribal terrains dominated by the native tribals. The state in the pursuit of capitalist ideology has overlooked the human rights of the human rights and the protocols of human rights. The present paper through a meta-synthesis of the studies undertaken on the issue tries to establish how rich lands being under industrial invasions under state patronage crate risk populace in the tribal landscape of the state. It tries to establish the trajectory of industrial development in the state, sketching the tribal situation, industry-led displacement scenario, and the way that affects tribal rights. The article concludes the carnage of tribal lives through industrial invasions and appeals to the system of governance to make a shift from the profit-centric growth approach to a people-centric distributive development and to echo the voices of the tribal, accommodate their needs and to prioritize their basic rights in any industry induced displacement planning and designing.