Thursday, 19 April 2012
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Cassandra Yeap
The Phnom Penh Post
The Asian Development Bank has responded to a petition filed by Phnom
Penh evictees of the national railway rehabilitation project, a bank
spokesperson said yesterday.
ADB operations coordinator Mao Ouk said the bank had raised the
issues, which include infrastructure concerns and help with their
livelihoods, with the Inter-ministerial Resettlement Committee and that
the government was in the process of implementing an “expanded income
restoration programme” that involved self-help groups and community
credit schemes.
But villager representative Ros Bopha said that a letter received
from the ADB on April 12 provided the “opposite” of what they were
asking.
“They [ADB] told us to create a joint savings group to
help ourselves,” she said. “Right now, we do not have enough money for
food, so how can we save?”
Some 160 families were relocated from Russey Keo district to Por Senchey district’s Trapaing Anchang village on March 6.
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