Coal mine project: Mamata announces ₹10,000 crore compensation package for land losers
The Hindu
West Bengal has been allotted the Deocha Pachami Harinsingha Dewanganj — the world’s second-largest coal block — by the Centre a few years ago.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on November 9 announced a compensation package of ₹10,000 crore for the ones who would get displaced or affected in some way or the other due to the Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum district.
The State has been allotted the Deocha Pachami Harinsingha Dewanganj — the world’s second-largest coal block — by the Centre a few years ago.
“We will not do anything like what had happened in Singur [forcible land acquisition for car project]. We will start the project with a government-owned land. We are a pro-people government. We don’t believe in doing things by force,” she told the Assembly.
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