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New Delhi: Sixteen years after the state-run Coal India Limited (CIL) first issued detailed mine-closure guidelines, only three coal mines in India have been formally closed. In fact, out of a list of 299 non-operational mines identified for closure by CIL in January 2024, only eight had applied for formal closure by August last year, a response to our Right-to-Information (RTI) request revealed.

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Himmatnagar, Sabarkantha: In January this year Darangi Bhera Sarubhai, a resident of Khedasan village in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, received a notice informing him that his Individual Forest Rights (IFR) claim had been rejected. The 70-year-old was one of 30 individuals from Khedasan, a Schedule V village, whose claims were rejected on the grounds that their possession of the land could not be verified via satellite imagery.

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New Delhi: Twenty-seven years after the Supreme Court first directed states to identify and classify unique ecologies as “forests”, the Rajasthan government finally notified its sacred groves, known as Orans, as “deemed forest”, on February 1, 2024. Orans are a vital part of community life in Rajasthan--community forests that are sometimes centuries old, traditionally seen as sacred, preserved and managed by rural communities, with local laws and rules governing their use.

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Ranchi: During COP26 in November 2021, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed that by 2030 half of India's energy would come from renewables, and that the country would go net zero by 2070. A year later Jharkhand, the biggest producer of coal in India with a total reserve of about 86.66 billion million tonnes, constituted the country's first "Just Transition" taskforce. The concept of “Just Transition” has been around since the 1980s.

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Damoh: On a warm October afternoon in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, about 20 men gathered for a baithak (meeting) to express their fears of being dispossessed from their fields. Nearly 250 km east of the capital city Bhopal, Damoh is part of the Bundelkhand region, one of the most backward in the country. The baithak was an awareness session around forest rights.These men, who belong to the Gond tribe, rued the day they filed online claim applications for land titles under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).