Section 28
National Remote Communities Integration Programme
Ensure that people living in isolated forests, jungles and wilderness areas are not abandoned without access to essential public services, while respecting their freedom and dignity.
- ▸Identify isolated communities through respectful consultation and reliable population surveys.
- ▸Offer voluntary relocation to safe, well-planned villages and towns with suitable housing.
- ▸Provide clean water, sanitation, electricity, roads, healthcare, schools, communications and employment opportunities.
- ▸Respect local cultures, languages, traditions, ancestral lands and community decision-making.
- ▸Where communities choose to remain, provide appropriate services and access without forcing them to move.
- ▸Prohibit forced displacement, violence, punishment or discrimination based on traditional ways of life.
- ▸Use independent oversight, informed consent, transparent funding and accessible complaint and appeal processes.
National goal: no community is left without essential services, and every person is treated with dignity and protected rights.