Around West Bengal’s Deocha-Pachami coal mining project site in Birbhum district, villagers worry that their land will be seized or that they will be relocated for what is being touted as India’s largest coal block. CM Mamata Banerjee, who in the past led protests against forcible land acquisition when she was not in power, is reassuring people of jobs and compensation, Moyurie Som reports
Between a coal mine and a hard place
