Justice in Mining Network

 Newsletter January 2024 Justice in Mining Network Bagaicha Social Centre, Ranchi Ground Reports  1. Guaranteed crucial employment for the Displaced villages for their proper resettlement and rehabilitation from the Karanpura Open-Cast Mining Block in Pipri-Barwadih, Hazaribagh. Pipri-Barwadih coal block mined by Triveni Sainik Private Limited National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a central government undertaking, is India's largest power utility. There are 16 coalblocks in the North Karanpura coalfield that is situated in parts of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Chatra and Latehar. The Pipri-Barwadih coalblock (Hazaribagh) of the North Karanpura has the largest reserve of approximately 642 million tonnes. The NTPC has assigned the Papri-Barwadih coal block to Triveni Sainik Mining Limited in September, 2015 as the Mine Developer and Operator (MDO). Open cast mining has removed the top layer and caused ecological crisis, apart from the social crisis of unemployment and migration. Fam...

 Newsletter, December, 2023 Justice in Mining Network Ranchi Social Centre, Ranchi Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act (1980) Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act (1980) came into effect from 1 December, 2023. The amendments are highly criticised as it eases the grabbing of land in the name of "public welfare". The Forest Conservation Amendment Act (FCAA), 2023 violates the landmark legislation Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, that designates the forest dwellers and gram sabhas as statuary protectors of forests and their wildlife biodiversity. The Act allows for the diversion of forest for "defence" or "national security" in most northeast India without forest clearance.  Excerpts from First Dr Kumar Suresh Singh Memorial Lecture Xavier Institute of Social Sciences, Ranchi by Prof. Virginias Prof. Virginus Xaxa, a renowned sociologist from the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of...