Development Induced Displacement: a study of the Project affected people of Simhadri Thermal power project. The specific objectives of the study are to study the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of project affected people and impact of displacement on their environment family health and family life styles. This book helps to making government policies for land acquisition. It helps research of displacement studies for research scholars and students. This will also prove guiding to Government and policy makers while establishing major medium and small scale development projects in sectors like of irrigation industries and power etc. in different areas so that the pangs of displacement could be mitigated.