Reliance clarifies

In my post Reliance and Rehabilitation, I quoted the Economic Times as saying that Reliance was not offering a formal guarantee of job offers to those displaced and it was not providing for sharecroppers and landless labourers. A Reliance spokesman has written to ET today clarifying the position:

For record, let me reiterate that the job guarantee applies to all eligible cases in the project area. It is a formal guarantee. About the reference to the land labourers our statement on R&R package states: “For landless PAPs (project-affected persons), minimum agricultural wage (Rs 60 per day at present) would be paid for two years to every family. Vocational training, too, would be provided to one nominee of each such family.”