June 25, 2019
To clear way for mining, did Dantewada administration fake approval from a village council?
Source: scroll.in Until they saw a carpet of felled trees outside their village in early January, the residents of Hiroli in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district had no inkling that the government had cleared mining operations on their sacred hill. Their shock deepened when they realised that, on paper, they had been shown to have approved the