Mumbai infrastructure violates safeguards: Inspection Panel (Bretton Woods Project)

Mumbai infrastructure violates safeguards: Inspection Panel

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The publication on 29 March of the Inspection Panel investigation into the Mumbai urban transport project has revealed that the Bank "did not comply with a number of requirements under its own policies". The Panel found that the rail and road transport project, which will see some 100,000 people displaced, "overlooked the needs of low and middle-income shopkeepers" and their staff. Serious problems were identified relating to living conditions at resettlement sites, flaws in the environmental assessment and the failure to establish an effective grievance system. Remedial steps to be taken include improved services for resettlement sites, effective functioning of the grievance mechanism and strengthened Bank supervision.

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After a relatively quiet year in 2005, the Inspection Panel will move back into the limelight over the coming months as it issues a series of reports and decisions on requests for investigation. The Bretton Woods Project talked with Eduardo Abbott, Executive Secretary of the Panel secretariat about Wolfowitz, the attack on safeguards, and the impact that the Panel is having on the Bank. read article...
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