RTI: No papers available to explain Balco bauxite mining in Adivasi areas...

Naresh Bunkar from Kawardha district in Chhattisgarh is telling that Bharat Aluminium Co ( Balco) is mining bauxite on land of 5 Adivasi villages from 1997 which it took on 20 years lease. 66 Baiga Adivasis were displaced. Today when we are demanding papers for starting the mining operation and the whole process of taking those land under RTI they say no papers are available. Please help us get the whole process investigated. For more Naresh Ji is at 08720822286

Posted on: Oct 08, 2013. Tags: MINING NARESH BUNKAR

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