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Alok Shukla led a successful community campaign that saved 445,000 acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines in Chhattisgarh | Latest News India

Tara coal block is in Hasdeo Aranya forest area (Surajpur district) and has the existence of 15.96 sq km of Very Dense Forest (VDF) area in the coal mine

Tara coal block is in the Hasdeo Aranya forest area (Surajpur district) and has 15.96sq km of very dense forest (VDF) area in the coal mine. | Latest News India

The IT department's notice to CPR prominently cites the latter's ties with an NGO in Chhattisgarh that has been associated with protests against mining in Hasedo. What the notice, however, does not state is that Hasdeo is the site of a massive Adivasi movement against the Adani Group for over a decade.

A young activist from Manipur is leading the protests in the region. She has been carrying out marches, holding sit-in protests, delivering speeches, and putting out threads on Twitter arguing why coal mining should be stopped in Hasdeo.

Chhattisgarh was earlier known as "Naxalgarh" (Naxalite Fort) but efforts put in to convert the state of affairs are paying dividends, enabling the state to gain a new identity, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said on Sunday. The original image is slowly getting eroded from the minds of the people,

Surguja Collector cites disapproval of minister TS Singh Deo; activists say will of people more important

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Continuing the efforts to get its coal mines started, Rajasthan government has written another letter to Chhattisgarhs Chief Secretary Usha Sharma to mention that the livelihood of more than 5,000 families living near the mining sites is at stake.