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\u201cCan you please tell me the name of the owner of this company?\u201d insisted Abha Ekka, a post-graduate student, at a public hearing held this Monday in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Raigarh district.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it is relevant,\u201d replied Additional District Magistrate, S.K. Sharma who was conducting the hearing for the acquisition of 693.32 hectares of land for a coalmine for DB Power Ltd.<\/p>\n
DB Power is a subsidiary of DB Corp Ltd, a media conglomerate that owns four newspapers, including the Hindi Dainik Bhaskar and English DNA, that have a combined readership of 17.5 million readers, and the My FM radio station.<\/p>\n
The company’s most recent project in Dharamjaigarh shall displace 524 families from six settlements to extract 2 million tonnes of coal every year to fuel a 1320 MW thermal power plant that shall be built in the adjoining district of Janjgir.<\/p>\n
In the days preceding the hearing, the Raigarh edition of the Dainik Bhaskar carried a full page of stories in favour of the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack diamond to give sparkle to Dharamjaigarh\u2019s destiny\u201d, ran one typical headline on February 27. Another story claimed \u201cVillagers take steps to support DB Power\u201d, without mentioning that the newspaper and the power plant were owned by the same parent company.<\/p>\n
On the day of the public hearing, villagers were united in their opposition to the plant. \u201cCompany officials have been intimidating the villagers and are pressuring us to give our land, and the police are refusing to register cases against the company,\u201d said Adhir Majhi, a resident of Baisiya Colony who shall lose his land if the power is cleared.<\/p>\n
More than 40 people charged<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Feb 23 this year, DB Power\u2019s office in Dharamjaigarh was vandalised by a mob. The police have filed cases against more than 40 people, including 11 local reporters who were covering the incident. \u201cWe have been charged because we have written against the power project,\u201d said Manish Aggarwal, a reporter for Raigarh Sandesh.<\/p>\n
The police have also charged D.S. Maliya, a professor of Geography at G.G.U. Central University in the same incident. Prof. Maliya claims he has been implicated in the case in an effort to silence him. \u201cI have been opposing the project by screening copies of the EIA [Environmental Impact Assessment] report in the affected villages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Raigarh Superintendent of Police, Rahul Sharma said the police believed that all those charged had participated in the attack on the DB Power office.<\/p>\n
Senior police officials speculate that the intensity of the protests in this instance could be because a company is acquiring about 350 acres of urban land belonging to the Dharamjaigarh nagar panchayat along with village land.<\/p>\n
In a sign that the pressure is paying off, DB Power has submitted an affidavit pledging not to conduct any mining operations in nagar panchayat land. A supplementary letter filed at the public hearing promises to re-site any proposed water tanks and coal piles from nagar panchayat land to the remaining leased area. Four villages shall still lose their lands.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the company is really giving up 350 acres of land, it should submit a new EIA report,\u201d said activist Ramesh Agarwal, explaining that the existing report was meaningless as giving up 350 acres of urban land would alter the mining plan of the project.<\/p>\n
‘No info on impact’<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based research group, has criticised the report for not providing information on the mine\u2019s impact on surface and groundwater sources, forests and fauna. \u201cAlmost<\/p>\n
40 per cent of land in the project area is covered under forests \u2026There are 11 reserved and 2 protected forests within 10 km radius,\u201d says the CSE critique, noting that the EIA report claims that the buffer zone of the mine is home to sloth bears, hyenas and jackals but the core zone of mining is inhabited only by \u2018mammals\u2019 and \u2018reptiles\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic hearings are always held on the basis of a draft EIA report,\u201d said Vaibhav Alshi, Senior General Manager, DB Power, \u201cThe final report shall be modified on the basis of the issues raised in the hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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