India, Nov. 7 -- Jharkhand has doubled itscatch of fish between 2013-14 and 2018-19
Around 12,000 families lost their livelihood due when the Chandil dam came up in Jharkhand's Saraikela Kharsawan district in the 1980s. Its reservoir on the Subarnarekha river submerged more than 100 villages.
The people affected struggled for decades with the Jharkhand government for better rehabilitation and employment.
Now they have found an alternative source of income - pisciculture.
Some of those displaced because of the dam formed a cooperative society in '05 to rear fish in the reservoir. The right to fish in the waterbody that came up on their land was one of the demands of those affected by the project.
In the late 2000s, the Jharkhand governm...