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Chhattisgarh Mining Crisis Forces Elephants Into Deadly Human Conflicts
1 week, 6 days ago

Chhattisgarh Mining Crisis Forces Elephants Into Deadly Human Conflicts

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 10, 2024 23:11 IST - 10 MINS READ The Last Migration, an award-winning short film by Mike Pandey, famously depicted the journey of elephants from Bihar to Sarguja district in Chhattisgarh, braving forest fires and human interference along the way. Nitin Singhvi, a wildlife activist who filed a petition in the Chhattisgarh High Court in 2018 against …

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Over 200k trees to be felled in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo, 960k in Great Nicobar: Govt
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Over 200k trees to be felled in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo, 960k in Great Nicobar: Govt

Hindustan Times  

Approximately 273,757 trees will be cut in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forests in the coming years, the Union environment ministry told informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, while also defending plans to carry out large-scale development projects in the Great Nicobar Island, where it said close to a million trees will be felled in a separate disclosure. In a response to …

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Over 2L trees to be cut in Chhatisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand for mining: Centre tells RS
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Over 2L trees to be cut in Chhatisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand for mining: Centre tells RS

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha that around 273,000 more trees are likely to be felled in coming years for mining in Hasdeo Arand forests as the wildlife and biodiversity institutions have not recommended a complete ban on mining. The Union environment ministry in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday shared information on two of the most …

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Chhattisgarh villages object to public hearing on mines
5 months, 1 week ago

Chhattisgarh villages object to public hearing on mines

Hindustan Times  

Gram panchayats of six villages in Chhattisgarh have raised objections to a public hearing notice issued to discuss the environmental clearance for the Kente Extension Opencast Coal Mine of 9 million tonnes per annum in a lease area of 1,760 hectares. The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board has issued a notice to hold a public hearing for the project on August …

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Centre for Policy Research | Wrath of the state
11 months ago

Centre for Policy Research | Wrath of the state

The Hindu  

In March 2023, about 100 academics based outside India released an open letter criticising the Indian government’s move to suspend the FCRA licence of the Centre for Policy Research, a leading think tank focussed on public policy research and advocacy. Their warning about the “dangerous precedent” seemed to have made no impression on the Union Home Ministry, which has now …

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Chhattisgarh’s new BJP government restarts controversial coal mining in Adivasi areas
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Chhattisgarh’s new BJP government restarts controversial coal mining in Adivasi areas

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 29, 2023 18:17 IST - 7 MINS READ On the morning of December 21, Ajay T.G., a documentary filmmaker, and Alok Shukla, the convener of Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan—a people’s movement opposing the privatisation of forest resources—were reportedly kidnapped by unidentified individuals. Criticism of the previous Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government over mining clearances and coal deliveries by Adani …

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Chhattisgarh: 40 coal blocks in Lemru reserve not to be mined, says Coal ministry
1 year, 2 months ago

Chhattisgarh: 40 coal blocks in Lemru reserve not to be mined, says Coal ministry

Hindustan Times  

Raipur: The Union coal ministry has said that Coal India Limited’s 40 coal blocks in and around the Lemru Elephant Corridor will not be auctioned on the request of the Chhattisgarh government. Nine coal mines falling in dense Hasdeo-Arand coalfields have also been kept out for further rounds of auctions of coal blocks,” a Coal ministry statement said on Thursday. …

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No new mining reserves required in Hasdeo, Chhattisgarh tells SC
1 year, 5 months ago

No new mining reserves required in Hasdeo, Chhattisgarh tells SC

Hindustan Times  

Raipur/New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh government submitted an affidavit in Supreme Court stating that there is no need to allocate or use any new mining reserve areas for mining in Hasdeo Aranya and the ongoing Parsa East and Kente Basan mine contains a coal deposit of 350 million tonnes, adequate to meet the entire coal demand for the linked power plants …

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Chhattisgarh: Tree cutting for coal mining starts in Hasdeo amid protests
2 years, 2 months ago

Chhattisgarh: Tree cutting for coal mining starts in Hasdeo amid protests

Hindustan Times  

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh’s forest department on Monday started felling trees for the second phase of Parsa East Kente Basan coal mine project amid continuing protests by activists and villagers against clearance to coal mines in the state’s biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Arand region. Surguja Collector Kundan Kumar said that the forest department started felling trees in Pendramar-Ghatbarra forest on Tuesday morning for phase …

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How are Chhattisgarh’s Adivasis fighting back miners in central India’s densest forest?
2 years, 5 months ago

How are Chhattisgarh’s Adivasis fighting back miners in central India’s densest forest?

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 26, 2022 18:00 IST - 10 MINS READ For years, tribal and forest-dwelling communities have opposed mining in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand, one of central India’s most dense forests. Hasdeo’s 23 coal blocks fall under a “No-Go” category listed in a joint study published by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of …

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Chhattisgarh: Won't budge till all coal mine projects withdrawn, say protesters on 111th day of stir
2 years, 5 months ago

Chhattisgarh: Won't budge till all coal mine projects withdrawn, say protesters on 111th day of stir

The Hindu  

After battling the scorching heat of the summer months while protesting against the clearances to coal mines projects in Hasdeo Arand region since March this year, villagers in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district are now prepared to get drenched in the monsoon rains during their ongoing agitation. The protest at Hariharpur village, located around 60 km away from Ambikapur, against three coal …

Mining Region Coal Projects Protest Forest Chhattisgarh
Rajasthan likely to plunge into severe power crisis if coal not provided from Chhattisgarh
2 years, 6 months ago

Rajasthan likely to plunge into severe power crisis if coal not provided from Chhattisgarh

India TV News  

Highlights Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited CMD RK Sharma has said the state may see power crisis Sharma said he met the state officials of Surguja in Chhattisgarh over the crisis "Coal supply only enough till June is left," Sharma said Rajasthan is likely to plunge into a severe power crisis, the state's Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited CMD RK Sharma said …

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Centre permits mining in Hasdeo Arand area in Chhattisgarh
2 years, 11 months ago

Centre permits mining in Hasdeo Arand area in Chhattisgarh

Hindustan Times  

Despite protests by local residents, the environment ministry has permitted further coal mining in 1,136 hectares of land in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand, one of the last remaining old growth forests in the country. The forest advisory committee of the ministry on December 23 approved a proposal to extend mining in the Parsa East and Kente Basan block owned by the …

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Activists write to Bhupesh Baghel to reconsider move to expand mining in Hasdeo Arand forest
3 years ago

Activists write to Bhupesh Baghel to reconsider move to expand mining in Hasdeo Arand forest

Hindustan Times  

Wildlife activists and researchers wrote a letter to Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday, requesting him to reconsider the state government’s decision to pursue proposals for the opening up and expansion of mining operations in the Hasdeo Arand forest. It is, furthermore, a decision that lacks both scientific legitimacy and popular mandate, since it neither accurately represents the will …

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C’garh to hold public hearings on mining in coal block with 98% forest cover
3 years, 6 months ago

C’garh to hold public hearings on mining in coal block with 98% forest cover

Hindustan Times  

The Chhattisgarh government will hold public hearings in July in villages around the Kente Extension coal block as part of the process to grant environmental clearance to mining in the forested and biodiversity-rich Hasdeo Arand region, people aware of the matter said. “We are following the TOR of the concerned ministry, and we are bound to do it.” On the …

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