Land Acquisition and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Management: Manual For Resource Intensive Core Industries

Land acquisition management and corporate social responsibility aspects are assuming increasing importance in the clearance and subsequent project success. In a multi-racial and multi-caste society, understanding of community sensitivity to land and the local culture as well as the community expectations and requirement for development is often complex .It is essentially a continuous learning process requiring timely calibration of effectiveness of the schemes, judgmental decision making and pacification of different stakeholders. Political and developmental issues of job creation, industrial growth and local cultural continuity and concerns for well-being often clash in such situations leading different stakeholders into taking different sides for convenience. However, careful preparation and carrying the community along in terms of their aspirations can lead to improved results and efficiency in handling such problems. Such examples are growing in number – in the face of overwhelmingly many bad examples, however. The book-cum-manual holds a multi-lateral view and discusses the community, land and corporate social responsibility issues in terms of project delivery and scheduling so that the efficiency of handling project clearance towards a sustainable industrial set-up improves.