The discussion ended with suggestions coming in from the participants as to what could be the ways of establishing a more people-friendly media. That civil society should come forward in taking more initiatives as far as following up of stories are concerned, was the unanimous suggestion. It was the duty of the civil society to establish contacts with the media. The organisations working for the displacement issues should make it a point to report their progress to the local media house. The media could also arrange for weekly talks with the local NGOs to ensure that the issues get reported in the papers/channels. It was also the duty of the reporting persons to establish a close rapport with the people they are reporting on, and to gain their confidence so as to bring out their true stories.
The group discussion on internal displacement situation in South India focused on the problems and effects of internal displacement. The problems that are associated with migration in Andhra Pradesh are social security; wages; education of children; loveliness, threat from police; local anti- socials. 
People who are left behind at home suffer from socio-pschological trauma. The young and old take recourse to begging because they cannot manage to take up employment. Even here the teenage girls are vulnerable to sexual abuse and rape specially when their parents migrate for work. Two disabled tribal girls were raped when the excise officials raided their house and found illegal liquor after their parents had migrated for construction work in Almatee Dam. The parents returned and forced the girls to move out. One of the girls contracted AIDS and people have stopped buying from her shop, which was the only source of income. 
Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra reported highest number of farmers’ suicides. Increasingly people failing to cope with the socio-psychological trauma of displacement and eviction have resorted to killing themselves. One of the main resaons is that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has not been properly 

propagated. The nexus between the politicians, village authority and revenue officials have failed to prevent migration from rural areas.
The group also agreed than there is a thin line between man-made disasters and natural disasters. Typologically the project – affected persons due to development projects like airport expansion and dam construction does have ecological impact and often goes unaccounted in the study of displacement.
The discussion ended on the note that if migration is understood as migration only then individuals and communities will be held responsible whereas the broader meaning of “displacement” expands the possibility of identifying the responsible and what forces people to move.
The three-day deliberations came to an end with the valedictory address by K.G. Kannabiran, Senior Advocate, National President, PUCL. The session was chaired by Jeelani Bano, Noted Urdu Writer and President, Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Hyderabad.
The noted Urdu writer Smt. Jeelani Bano pointed out that as a writer for her “ migration” is related to livelihood issues of food, shelters and home.  She also reflected on the recent ethnic conflicts in Mumbai between Marathis and Bengalis. Thousands of people have migrated for work and livelihood.  They have migrated for livelihood.  She argued that if people are employed and economically self sufficient in their respective villages and towns; they need not migrate.
K. G. Kannabiran, Senior Advocate, National President, PUCL in his valedictory address said people have failed to distinguish between colonization and immigration which is crucial to understanding forced eviction and displacement. While colonization results in forced eviction and displacement and immigration is often voluntary. It is this fundamental distinction that has not been perceived by many. As an