Coal mine project: Mamata announces Rs 10,000 cr compensation package for land losers

Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a compensation package of Rs 10,000 crore for the ones who would get displaced or affected in some way or the other due to the Deocha-Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum district. The state has been allotted the Deocha Pachami Harinsingha Dewanganj — the world’s second-largest coal block — by the Centre a few years ago.

“We will not do anything like what had happened in Singur (forcible land acquisition for car project). We will start the project with government-owned land. We are a pro-people government. We don’t believe in doing things by force,” she told the Assembly.