Andhra Pradesh being agriculture and livestock, those facing the brunt of mass scale displacement due to the so-called agricultural reforms formed the main focus of her paper. It is amazing to study how the agriculturists cope with the displacement and try to rebuild their livelihood amidst crisis.
The most obvious outcome of agricultural displacement is the change of occupation. For example, a huge lot of women, after being displaced from Mehboobnagar agricultural area, have moved to plastic-manufacturing units in other metros, as Delhi, Mumbai etc. This job entails huge health hazards, not just for the women themselves but also for their children who often have to accompany their mothers to the units in absence of any other guardian at home. Migration of this kind is justified by the police and other governing authorities as a way to cut down on poverty. Migration is a misleading image of ‘agricultural distress’. Though migration, is often made to imply greater economic growth and flourishing new jobs, in reality it continues to be the evil face of agricultural distress, which often go unnoticed or unaddressed.
In the lecture and discussion on Internal Displacement in India – Overview by Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group and Professor, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, he highlighted that the major difference between the two categories of displaced persons are the fact that  refugees are protected by the 1951 convention and the 1961 protocol whereas internally displaced persons depend entirely on their state or government to provide assistance and in most cases the very same governments are the cause of harm, thereby making them vulnerable.
Since 1990 the disintegration of the Soviet Union. and the neo-liberal inclination of the agenda for development has been responsible for the increase in the number of internally displaced. Since the economic reforms of the 90s, the amount of development-induced displacement had increased dramatically. As
far as India is concerned there are three categories of IDPs in 

 India:
1. Conflict-induced
2. Development-induced
3.  Disaster-related
He concluded his presentation with the note on the resettlement and rehabilitation policies. He stated that women, children and senior citizens are the most vulnerable to torture and sexual exploitation. When indigenous people are displaced, they resettle in another place, do menial jobs or suffer starvation. The shift of balance of power at the state level also changes the situation of displaced persons as the loyalties of the state and the persons involved change.
The discussion on 'Media and Displacement' revolved mainly around the ways media addresses the reports on displacement. The media was accused of being insensitive towards cases of displacement. Media often failed to follow-up a displacement report or even trace the whole crisis to its genesis. Media is more keen on sensationalising a report, specially if that involved resistance movements led by women or women activists. False sensationalising of the reports only lead to the main issues loosing their importance. The media can hardly be seen to take up an active role in relief processes, rehabilitation programmes of the displaced lot. The most important drawback of the media is its taking sides with the ruling governments of the state that it is working in. The media, instead of acting as a neutral reporting body, becomes a weapon for the ruling government to defend their cause. It often becomes difficult for the media, specially the local ones, to act as neutral bodies, given that every one of them has their own financers to satisfy. The national media houses were also accused of not reporting local issues that are of immense importance as issues of violation of human rights, injustice or forced displacements. As a result, the local news fails to make space among national readership.