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Four-fold compensation for villagers displaced by Gare Palma coal mine

Decision entails an additional burden of Rs 75 cr; earlier compensation was twice the market price of land surrendered

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R Krishna Das Raipur
Locals who were ousted to accommodate Chhattisgarh’s Gare Palma-3 coal block will get a compensation equivalent to four times the market price of the land they had to give up.

The coal block in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district was previously owned by Goa Industrial Development Corporation but was apparently never developed. The block was re-auctioned in March 2015 and allotted to the state-owned Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Company (CSPGCL).

The company appointed Adani Enterprises as mine developer and operator. The villagers displaced by the project had been demanding higher compensation, which the state government had now agreed to pay.

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel instructed

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