Each year millions of people around the globe are relocated and resettled away from their homes and livelihoods in order to make way for large scale development projects. In most of the cases displaced people have not been compensated by proper rehabilitation and resettlement measures. It has been seen that large number of development projects have been poorly constructed and not properly implemented resulting in an undesirable impact on it’s surrounding. The Assam Baghjan gas and oil leak, 2020 was a natural gas blowout that happened in Oil India Limited’s Baghjan oil field in Tinsukia district of Assam. The blowout occurred at well and the leaking well subsequently caught fire on 9 June 2020 and resulted in Large scale local evacuation, displacement of indigenous people. Disaster has affected houses, their farmlands and polluted water bodies and wiped off their livelihoods. Although some of the displaced people have received financial compensation it will not help them to lessen their suffering in the long run. Some of the displaced people were not fully financially compensated as they were promised by Oil India limited. So, this paper tries to find out the major problems, effects and consequences of the displacement and the present living condition of indigenous displaced people of Baghjan.
The study has a significant role in anthropological science as it concern with the forced displacement, resettlement and marginalization of indigenous people because development induced displacement deprives indigenous people from homes, productive assets, culture, livelihood, environmental condition suited to their skill and practices and community network. It affect the poorest, most socially and economically marginalized section such as women, children, tribal people, indigenous people etc.
