Indigenous Peoples Oppose Asia's Largest Proposed Coal Mine

The proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine in West Bengal’s Birbhum could be the world’s second-largest coal mine but the local indigenous and lower caste population is protesting the mine for the impact it will have on the environment and on their rights over land.

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