Ranchi: They can be illiterate who do not have knowledge of energy dynamics, but they know that life may be in natural laps.
Their love for Jal, Forest, Zamin (water, forest and land) is so deep that thousands of villagers in Tubait Village Latehar Regency rejected all tantalizing offers from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and stuck with the idea of ​​processing land to produce two meals themselves.
Having an environmental permit obtained from the Ministry of Forest Environment and Climate Change (Impact of the Assessment Division) for the 6mtpa Tubaid Project Coal Mine in April 2020, DVC officials on Wednesday visited the village for the talk of the villagers and informing them about the provisions of compensation.
Under the price was revised, the corporation had offered to pay them Rs 27,36,700 for Acre Agricultural Land and Rs 54.73,500 for per acre plot housing.
In addition, offers made to shift allowances, houses in R & R colonies and absorption of local workers in the project.
Although DVC officials refused to talk to the media, they made offers for villages in the loudspeaker and appealed to them to work together for regional development.
The official DVC Sudhir Mukherjee said this was their first attempt to detail the share of compensation offered to the villagers.
“We will make other efforts to negotiate,” he said after protests getting harder and mixed administration to end public hearings.
Circle officers, latehar, Rudra Pratap, said the administrative team was present under the direction of the deputy commissioner to take care of law and order.
“Our role is limited to ensure that the interests of the local villagers are not disturbed by people ‘companies’ and that they adhere to state rehabilitation and resettlement policies,” he said.
Pratap added that since several villages began agitation and refused to part with their land, DVC officials were asked to conclude the trial.
According to the context of the Batubara Blocks, the total mining area spread in 460 hectares of 230 hectares of agricultural land, 162.4 hectares of forest, 39 hectares of empty land, 22 hectares of surface water and settlements spread over 1 hectare.
Geological reserves are estimated at 189.82MT with a reserve mined 170.89mt.
From the mining reserve, 139mt according to 81.3% is extracted.
Target mining proposal for coal mines for 30 years.
Spread in six villages – Tubaid, Mangra, Dihi, Ambajharan, Dhobiajharan and Newari – Mining projects estimated Thousands displaced the family.
About 3,000 people gathered for a public hearing on Wednesday and openly protesting every effort to claim their land.
“We are a poor tribe who does not have the use of money because we will spend it without the purpose and future generation we will be left dead.
For us, our land is only a property that supports generations, “said one resident.
Other village girls, whether they want to be identified, coal mining will pollute the area and reduce their forests.
“We live in synchronous with nature and if anyone disturbs the god of our forests he is angry that we all have to pay the price for generations,” he said, explaining the reason why they had collectively refused to accept the volume of compensation to leave them land and forests.