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India after independence following the path of ‘Planned development’ which gives larger scope for enormous expansion of Projects as well displacement of people from their original homestead to newer areas. According to World Bank (2000), Dams are the single largest sources of displacement in India. Dams are both beneficial and harmful to certain communities. People especially vulnerable groups like, women have faced severe consequences in form of scattering of kinship groups, disintegration of family and disruption in social networks formed by friends and neighbours. Neighbours form prominent associational group in the articulation of community and formation of social capital. Displacement to the maximum extent disturbed the cordial relationship between the neighbours and especially weakened the bonding of displaced women to the maximum extent in the form of lessened support during the time of sickness and taking care of children by their neighbours.