CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Conflict Management

Conflict Management

Introduction

Over 30 years before, Tata established Fishermen's Cove Beach Resort about 30 kilometres south of Chennai. They went into into a lease affirmation for two acres of land with the landowner, who got the land from the church. To construct the holiday resort, Tata furthermore took over seven acres of land belonging to the angling village. This was founded on the oral affirmation that Tata would in turn supply the community with rudimentary services for example consuming water (two tankers a day), children's learning (fees, publications, etc.) and rice throughout the rainy time of the year, as well as pay them a charge to take inn visitors on vessel cruises. Today, these seven acres are worth some million rupees, due to the cash to be made from sandy seashore tourism. Whether by coincidence or else, this oral affirmation came to an sudden end when the tsunami struck.

After the tsunami, the Kovalam angling community obtained about 50 fibre vessels which they had to reserve on the seashore, even though this occasionally encroached on the seashore in front of the Fishermen's Cove Resort. The inn administration claimed the exclusion of these new vessels, as they influenced the tourists' outlook of the sea. This demand irked the community as their livelihood was disputed and they could not reserve their vessels any location else. However, after a couple of days of discussion the community appreciated that Fishermen's Cove was not going to relent.

Unhappy with Fishermen's Cove for not supplying ample respite after the tsunami, the Kovalam angler folk inquired the inn administration to accredit three acres of alternate land - less than half of what they had initially appropriated back in the 1980s - for the protected lodgings of the community. “The inn persons had been saying since 1991 that if any issue we required land for dwellings or schools they would come back the land they'd taken or purchase us land for somewhere else“, said Narayan, a previous life guard at the inn and now a communal employee in the village. “Then after the tsunami, when we actually required the land, they said they could help us with everything…” -except land, as it turned out.

Facilitated by the Minister for Fisheries, discussions between the Kovalam community and the inn assembly continued for more than three months before a memorandum was signed. The community acquiesced to forego the seven acres of dwelling stead land held by the inn if the government would rather than reimburse them with three acres of alternate land.

However the government is yet to consign their last verdict. In the meantime, the inn begun expansion and new building, without the essential consent of the Panchayat, states Janaki Raman, President of the Panchayat. The community constituents state that the living inn, too, violates the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, an proceed which intended to defend the fragile seaboard natural environment and ecology.

Theoritical Power Perspective

Status distinctions facilitate the use of power by people in higher positions to secure compliance from those in ...