Chhattisgarh activist Alok Shukla to receive Goldman Prize for Hasdeo Arand movement
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
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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.