Nagpur: When humans are at its peak in the Vidarbha region because the wildlife habitat that shrinks 37 lives, coal blocks to Adani Power Maharashtra Limited (APML) in Gondkhairi, 20 km from the city, has ruffled feathers from environmental lovers and wildlife conservation.
On August 4, Adani won a bid for the Batubara Gondkhaairi block to extract 1 MTPA coal for RS122.83 Crores.
Green has been critical about allotment as 112 hectares of rich mixed forest land, equivalent to 277 sides of football are part of the block and will be transferred for mining.
Wildlife Conservationists, who have struggled to mitigate conflicts and save wildlife and forests in this region, have troubled the BJP Doublespeak of the BJP government about promoting renewable energy on the one hand and allocating coal blocks in a rich pocket of wildlife on the other side.
In 2008, coal blocks were allocated for underground mining to the three-party joint venture but mining was never done because of the fraud of coal allocation.
In 13 years, the Wildlife Law (Protection), 1972 had been amended and corridor and the buffer zone for tiger reserves was notified.
The tiger number in Maharashtra in 2008 was 131 and has surged into 312 in 2018 in accordance with the ‘Tiger Status, Co-Predator & Indian prey.
In 2014, drill was declared a tiger reserve and since then there was a leap in the tiger numbers with a spillover population that spread to the Kalmeshwar range.
“There is a resident tiger in the range of Kalmeshwar and the forest patch in a coal block used by.
Big cats.
There is also the presence of animal schedules in the area.
In September 2019, a tiger had traveled to Fetri from Kalmeshwar from the forest patch.
Not only this , an area side by side with coal blocks also has forests that will be affected because of mining, “said the RFO section working in Kalmeshwar.” The department must vary if it is a corridor.
Even if not, tigers must use patches like that and may need forest areas To survive.
In a similar proposal in the Pandharchda Division, PCCF has formed an expert committee to make calls.
This project must also be treated with similar lines.
Such projects of tiger habitat fragments that cause conflict, “said the former wildlife wildlife Jaydeep Das.
“It’s amazing that when the whole world moves away from coal, and The impact of climate change stares at our face, Adani is not only a supply for a new coal mining in India but even continues with their coal mine in Australia, it is said that one of the largest coal mines in the world, “said the Debi Goenka environment.” Now it is also proven that there is no Power plants in India, including Tiroda power plants operated by Adani, are able to comply with the provisions of Fly Ash notifications.
Letting mine coal from Gondkhairi close to Nagpur will not only worsen these problems but will also add pollution, “Goenka added.
Sudhir Paliwal, Convelor, Vidarbha Group Action Environment (VAG),” Even as a mining will be carried out underground, will cause acid mine drainage due to coal sulfur content.
It will contaminate the surface and ground water by mixing oil, cokum and oil in water and will also destroy Lake Surabardi.
“” In turpaar near Chimur, the underground coal mine by WCL has caused water scarcity so that it seizes drinking water and irrigation.
All village wells are dry.
High pollution is expected because most of the coal mined will be transported in an open truck, “said Paliwal.
However, even when the coal block has been allocated, the Deputy Forest Conservator (DYCF) Bharat Singh Hada said,” In the case of forest land.
Transfer, the company must submit a formal proposal online under FCA with the State Nodal Officer.
This will then come to me for a critical review and only after site visits and decision surveys will be taken.
Until now, there were no proposals submitted.
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