Passionate About India: The unfortunate social costs of Coalgate and such ...

Passionate About India: The unfortunate social costs of Coalgate and such ...:

here have been waves of protests in most of the coal mining states – particularly socially conscious Maharashtra – against pollution, environment hazards, and land acquisition... but nothing much was done. Land procurement is done by the government, and also by the private coal mining companies, which have very little respect for the laws, and who have very little good-faith negotiations with the land owners! And mind you, these activities are on since decades, even before any coal scam was discovered.

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