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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts -Sushmita

Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts -Sushmita

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published Published on Jul 22, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 29, 2022

-India.Mongabay.com

* The allocation of lands for new commercial coal mines is likely to renew issues related to the creation of land banks in Jharkhand.

* Common lands that people use have been transferred to land banks over the years, and physical surveys to record actual rights aren’t complete yet.

* Lack of effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 on forest land (also part of land banks) has been a major point of concern for the affected community.

“Adani company go back,” residents of Jharkhand’s Gondalpura declared in a public hearing organised on July 15, 2022, by the Hazaribagh District Collector’s office to discuss issues surrounding impending land acquisition for an upcoming mine. The Gondalpura block in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh was sold to Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL), following the 2020 commercial coal auctions by the government of India. As part of the auctions, several mines across states were auctioned to various big and small industries, including many that had not mined coal before.

In the mining plan for Gondalpura block, the non-forest land was 176 hectares while forest land was 224 hectares. However, while applying for forest clearance in March 2021, AEL sought more land – 293.53 ha of non-forest land and 219.65 ha of forest land. The private company also asked the state for land from the land banks for compensatory afforestation – a statutory process meant to compensate for the loss of forests to mining, industries, infrastructure, and all non-forest use by raising plantations on an equivalent area of non-forest land or double the area of degraded forests. Residents of five villages, Gondalpura, Gali, Balodar, Hahe and Phulang, are likely to be displaced in this land acquisition process.

Land is a complex and contentious issue in tribal-dominated Jharkhand, a central Indian state. It has 23,605 square kilometres (about 2 million hectares) of Recorded Forest Area (RFA) which is about 29.6 percent of the total geographical land of the state. A land bank includes large tracts of land kept under the control of governments or private organisations for future development.

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India.Mongabay.com, 22 July, 2022, https://india.mongabay.com/2022/07/land-banks-in-jharkhand-may-become-a-recipe-for-conflicts/


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