A total of 2,141 out of around 4,500 persons, whose land is required for the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum district, have so far agreed to part with their plots formally, said a senior state government officer.
The development, multiple sources in the administration said, is significant as the consent of more than 50 per cent of the land losers will prompt the government to initiate the next round of actions to operationalise the coal mine.
“Once we get consents from the land losers, the work will start to operationalise the coal mine as soon as possible,” said a senior government official.
