A large number of villagers staged a demonstration on Wednesday in protest against mining companies, accusing them of illegally appropriating over 9,000 acres land in their settlements for laying a pipeline from Nabisar to a reservoir in Weejhiar area within Thar coalfields without paying compensation to landowners.
The protesters’ leaders complained to media persons that their land in 30 villages had been illegally occupied to lay pipeline for the water supply scheme.
Neither the government functionaries concerned nor executives of the mining firms engaged in coal extraction and power production in the area bothered to pay compensation for the surveyed land they had appropriated for the scheme, they said.
They alleged that instead of being provided adequate compensation the landowners were being threatened by the officials to scare them into keeping silent over the injustice.
A large number of villagers staged a demonstration on Wednesday in protest against mining companies, accusing them of illegally appropriating over 9,000 acres land in their settlements for laying a pipeline from Nabisar to a reservoir in Weejhiar area within Thar coalfields without paying compensation to landowners.
The protesters’ leaders complained to media persons that their land in 30 villages had been illegally occupied to lay pipeline for the water supply scheme.
Neither the government functionaries concerned nor executives of the mining firms engaged in coal extraction and power production in the area bothered to pay compensation for the surveyed land they had appropriated for the scheme, they said.
They alleged that instead of being provided adequate compensation the landowners were being threatened by the officials to scare them into keeping silent over the injustice.
