{"id":295823,"date":"2019-10-11T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295823"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:31:29","slug":"land-price-standoff-in-birbhum-coal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/land-price-standoff-in-birbhum-coal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Land price standoff in Birbhum coal project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh trouble is brewing over land for a mega coalmine project at Loba in Birbhum as the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has proposed a price of Rs 14 lakh per acre to purchase 3,600 acres, an offer unacceptable to land-losers who say the rate is less a third of the market price in the area. <\/p>\n<p>The central public sector undertaking needs around 3,600 acres to set up the open-cast coalmine in Loba. <\/p>\n<p>Although the groundwork for the project started in 2009, a pause button had to be pressed in 2012 following a violent movement by the land-losers. <\/p>\n<p>With the state government showing keen interest in the project but stressing that DVC must directly purchase land from the owners, talks started again \u2014 under the aegis of the district administration \u2014 in 2017 and the area was surveyed for an assessment of the land ownership pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh trouble is brewing over land for a mega coalmine project at Loba in Birbhum as the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has proposed a price of Rs 14 lakh per acre to purchase 3,600 acres, an offer unacceptable to land-losers who say the rate is less a third of the market price in the area. The central public sector undertaking needs around 3,600 acres to set up the open-cast coalmine in Loba. Although the groundwork for the project started in 2009, a pause button had to be pressed in 2012 following a violent movement by the land-losers. With the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}