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Indian farmer Manbodh Biswal hopes his soil will become more fertile and he will get access to unpolluted water, after securing a rare legal win in which a court ordered two firms to pay damages for irresponsible mining in his home area.

Two companies are found liable for irresponsible mining and violating mine closure norms, and ordered to pay clean-up compensation

While the country has shut 123 mines since 2008, there is little evidence of measures taken to ensure proper environmental remediation and land rehabilitation.

At least 123 coal mines have been closed in India since 2008 but there is “very little evidence of environment remediation and land rehabilitation in these areas” says a latest study which emphasises that coal transitions are likely to be “a messy and complicated exercise” as nearly one in every three districts in the country […]