Times of India reported that amid raging controversy over coal block allocations, Chhattisgarh is all set to witness a unique movement from October 2 when a group of villagers will start mining coal, demanding that local community be given mining rights on natural resources.

Ms Savita Rath of NGO Jan Chetna Manch told TOI “Around 1000 villagers will break the coal law like Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi march against salt law. Local communities should have the first right on natural resources and not industrial houses.”

She said the villagers of Gare, Sarasmal and Khamharia in Tamnar block in Raigarh district would undertake a march to Gare mines to start mining of coal.

The agitation is aimed at triggering a movement in the country against the plunder of natural resources on which the local communities have a natural first right.

Source - Times of India

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