{"id":495926,"date":"2022-06-03T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495926"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T06:46:51","slug":"chhattisgarh-cong-district-unit-joins-tribals-against-mining-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chhattisgarh-cong-district-unit-joins-tribals-against-mining-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh: Cong district unit joins tribals against mining project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chhattisgarh Congress\u2019s Surguja district unit has joined local residents against its own party\u2019s government over the felling of trees in the Hasdeo Aranya forest for mining projects.<\/p>\n<p>An extension of Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal block and an adjacent coal block in Parsa are to be mined for the Rajasthan government by Adani Enterprises Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>The state forest department started felling trees in the pristine forest on Tuesday. Although the exercise had to stop due to massive protests by tribal people \u2014 they have been holding a vigil in the area for weeks now \u2014 nearly 100 trees were cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chhattisgarh Congress\u2019s Surguja district unit has joined local residents against its own party\u2019s government over the felling of trees in the Hasdeo Aranya forest for mining projects. An extension of Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal block and an adjacent coal block in Parsa are to be mined for the Rajasthan government by Adani Enterprises Ltd. The state forest department started felling trees in the pristine forest on Tuesday. Although the exercise had to stop due to massive protests by tribal people \u2014 they have been holding a vigil in the area for weeks now \u2014 nearly 100 trees [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495926","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=495926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}