Wednesday, June 20, 2007

"Raoghat Rail Project"- Salwa Judum of a different kind...

Since I have been away for the past few days the talk of starting a Rail project in the Narainpur District of North Bastar is really bothering me....

Bhilai Steel Plant people are already in Narainpur to garner support for this Rail Project.On 25th June there is a public meeting to gather support for this project....

State Government is planning to lease out 10 lac hectare of forest land for this project...where will this leave the peasants and tribals of North Bastar....they will surely disappear along with the mineral resources as has happened in the past...

This is the same project which was rejected by the Ministry of Environment few years ago.So why are the exploiters of Mineral reources confident that they will get the permission now??

Is it because other than the BSP other Private Player like the Tatas,Essars,Jindals want a piece of Raoghat mines???

If anybody has more information on this issue kindly email me at savebastar2day@yahoo.co.in

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