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.
Families say they did not get adequate compensation and jobs in lieu of land given for the Sarisatolli coal mine in West Bengal’s Asansol region owned by Integrated Coal Mining Limited (ICML) of the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group