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    Beginning and Expansion of Transport in the Human Society
    (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017) Udayakanthi, T.G.D.
    Within human Social evolution, social development link with transport. Accordingly, transport means the mobilization of living and non-living goods from one place to another. The main service of a mode of transport is to carry a person, an animal or an item from one place to another. The transport expanding worldwide in line with the rapid development through modes and in various shapes is a vital achievement of human society. Accordingly, the problem of this research was to investigate how transport system has affected to the social development. The main objective of this Research was to identify the impact of the transport for social development. Other objectives of this study were to identify means of the transport and beginning and the expansion of transport. In addition this study was conducted to identify the connection between society and transport. This study was mainly based on secondary data. The data collection sources were books, newspapers, magazines and internet. The transport creates a magnificent change in human society. It influences every social institution directly. Transport is one of the main factors of the infrastructure in any country. As main means of transport, by air, water, rail, cable, pipeline and space can be identified. For that, standard routes and ways have been decided. The roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines may be named as the established ways of transport in relation to transport infrastructure. The evolution of transport displays the biggest technological transformation of human civilization. Transportation became important to maintain personal relations and to transport the commodities needed by the people after the spreading of human settlements in various parts of the word. There is a strong link between transport and development. Transportation is an important entity in human social evolution. Every step of social development is linked with transport. Among the modes of transport, land transport can be identified as one the most important modes of transportation which affects social ,economic, political and environmental sectors. When social, economic and political influenced were being discussed, most of the time positive impacts could be noted rather than in environmental.
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    THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF PROJECT AFFECTED AND RESETTLED FAMILIES DUE TO SOUTHERN TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY.
    (2016) Udayakanthi, T.G.D.
    The STDP is the largest among all the development projects that have been implemented in SriLanka during the recent past. This directly influences almost all sections of the economy whichis an essential factor of the development of a country. This project consists of a stretch ofl24kms, starting from Kottawa to Matara and runs through 64 GSD and 21 DSD within fourdistricts. A total of 5,683 persons on 951 hectares have been affected due to the construction ofthis project. The RIP is implemented by the RDA jointly with the ADB and 18IC. The affectedfamilies have been compensated by the government by granting money and lands. This studyexamines the livelihoods of the affected people of the STDP. The theme of the study is "How hasthe livelihood of project affected people improved as a result of resettlement by the SouthernTransport Development Project". The main objective of this study was to find out the livelihoodconditions of the resettled families due to the implementation of the STDP. Apart from that, thesub objectives of the study were to identify the sources of livelihood, to find out the extent ofmediation by the government and other organizations to develop these sources of livelihood, andto find out the present socio-economic conditions of the resettled people. Basically, surveymethod was used for this study while a comparative method too was utilized. A questionnairetechnique, interview technique and an observation technique were used to collect data, inaddition secondary data have been used.Analyzing of collected data of the study revealed that the areas of the resettled people have notbeen changed so much. When their sources of livelihood are considered, it is not so satisfactoryand has dropped in with time. Most of them have built comfortable houses by using thecompensatory funds. However, the resettlement has directly affected in disrupting the businessrelationships of the self-employed businessmen. Obtaining loans by resettled families is high andmost of them have obtained loans to build houses and not for investments. The RDA hasintervened to upgrade their livelihoods. However, it has given priority only to counseling ratherthan practical programmes. The members of resettled families are happy with the existingeducation and religious relations. But they are not satisfied with the political institute. Whentaken as a whole, they are happy with the existing social security of the area. A systematicprogramme is required to upgrade the status of these people with the mediation of thegovernment and Non-Governmental Organizations by focusing special attention on SecondIncome Generators and self-employees. And also it should be emphasized that the governmentshould prepare a plan to resolve the problems of land ownership and any problems that could befaced by the second generation in the future. In addition, the condition of the sources oflivelihood of the resettled families could be upgraded by creating a suitable environment whichwould be helpful in creating positive attitudes among the resettled families.
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