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Deep in the sarandarsal forest, Thalkobad is at the core of CPI (Maoist)
In the "liberated area" of the Jharkhand West Singhbhum area along the boundary of Odisha ".
Thalkobad and 24 other villages were recovered by the Indian government after a massive military operation.
Operation Anaconda
I destroyed the CPI on August 2011 (Maoist)
Several training camps within the Eastern Regional Bureau and Saranda.
There are scars of conflict in the village
A high machaan used by the rebel government at that time was intact, but the secondary school building covered by the Maoists for the return of the CRPF fire was gone.
The rebels blew up the school before they fled.
Saranda is "a laboratory of how to consolidate the success of security," the minister of rural development jailram Ramesh said in a recent interview. Mr.
Ramesh launched Rs. 250-
Crore Saranda development plan (SDP)
In 2011, similar rebel plans were announced in 56 villages here.
Through recent paramilitary operations, control areas in the ratharhar and Bokaro areas have been recovered.
Two years later, though mining companies have lined up to invest in newly acquired forests, villagers in Saranda are still waiting for schools and medical centers.
In adikobad, villagers of adivasi recalled the fierce battle of August: most families fled to Karampada for a month at 13 km kilometers, 18-year-
The Central Reserve Police Force, on suspicion, brought old Mona Sawyer and his father by helicopter to ranch, detained and beaten in several police camps, and later released, 50-year-
Old Jarda Honhaga was so badly beaten that he died in hospital.
Of the 25 villages, 37 were arrested and more than 100 were detained.
Six months later, CRPF returned with Sari, blankets and farm tools.
Over the past few months, villagers have watched the construction of a safe camp next to their village, and then watched a road connecting Karampada and Jaraikela.
Some people found temporary work with road contractors and MGNREGA.
There are also concerns that new mines will be opened in the forest.
"Our land will be destroyed if mines are opened.
There is only red water in this river.
We can't read.
How many of us will find a job?
Binodini Purti says he cooks in the middle school that was blown up.
Almost all villages in Saranda are struggling with drinking water.
The forest is the three great rivers.
Koina, Subarnrekha and Damodar, have several streams flowing through.
However, in this 200-square-kilometer forest, 12 large mining companies operate on 800-square-kilometers of land --
The fourth Iron in Indiaore reserves.
Ho adivasi, living in the forest, first launched the "lal Paani andolan" to deal with the pollution of sewage and surface streams
In 1978, they continued their resistance in the Noamundi competition.
"Drinking water is needed in all 56 villages.
The problem of high iron content in water, "stated Saranda's outline of the plan for October 2011.
Thalkobad, Tirilposi, the Indian steel authority (Baliba) located downstream (SAIL)
At the crushing plant in Kiriburu, the ore is cleaned and crushed into even pieces.
Rs in Kiriburu, sail4. 23 crore-
The mud mining machine that extracts the ore from the water discharged back into the river does not work.
"It has not even worked once since its inception in 2010.
When the inspection team arrived, the hotel was full and the orchestra was from Jamshedpur.
Last year, sail produced more than 15 million tons of mines in Saranda.
Downstream villagers dig shallow pits and collect drinking water a few inches deep on the river.
Mines destroyed by farm Thalkobad, Karampada, Navgaon, Bandhgaon, Mirchgada, Bahada, Kalaita, Jumbaiburuladen water.
"I can't say the concentrator, but the Kiriburu plant is being modernized.
Since private mining companies cleaned 200-
Every day in the river carrying iron, oil and grease dump truck 250 units.
I will check them when I find them, "said general manager Dilip Bhargava SAIL (Mines).
Since January, the prime minister-led cabinet committee on infrastructure has recommended the clean-up of open-air mining in the sarandassenlin area, which forms the Singhbhum Elephant Sanctuary, with three private
JSW Steel owned by Sajjan Jindal received a 998 lease.
7 hectares of Anka Forest branch of Jindal iron and steel Power Co. , Ltd (JSPL)
Under the leadership of Congressman and industrialist Navin Jindal, the Ghatkuri forest covers an area of 512 hectares.
Approval of 138.
Last month, eight hectares of woodland from Ghatkuri to Rungta Mining Co. , Ltd. were almost completed.
There are 155 proposals for a hammer for a 500 square kilometer leasenearly two-
The forest is in its thirties.
In theory, these proposals must first be made by the state government.
"We have little say in the proposal," said a senior forest official . ".
"There are more than 600 elephants in Saranda.
More mining could disrupt their migrants and intensify their attacks on villages, "said A. , head of state forest protection. K.
Marhorra of Ranch
Since 2006, the proposal of the Ministry of Forestry for the notification of 63199 hectares of forests in Saranda as non-infringing forests has been pending.
Ironically, the recent approval of private companies came after the approval of Chiria in Saranda to mine iron ore in February 2011. Ramesh. Mr.
The then Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Ramesh, overturned the decision of the forest advisory committee to approve navigation on the grounds of the public sector unit (PSU)’s “Rs.
IPO 18,000 crore on Hammer ".
Private mining companies have quoted ankua and Ghatkuri from the Chiria mine close to sail, arguing that they have also obtained permits in the already "broken" forest. Mr.
On 2011, Ramesh stated that in Saranda he was only in favor of PSU mining, but there was no executive order to support this or to grant it legal status.
As a result of a series of mining permits issued by the government, the minister requested in an interview with the media 10-
Saranda suspended mining for one year.
"The 10-year gap will stabilize the situation and build trust among the locals to allow time to train and educate the local people to take advantage of the economic opportunities brought about by mining, but the government seems to want to allow Saranda mining, he said.
Ramesh of Hinduism.
UPA did not respond publicly to Mr.
Ramesh's suggestion
There is no new school or health center in Thalkobad, where the middle school building was blown up by the Maoists Surendra Purti, A high school graduate from a rural volunteer teaches teenage children in a primary school building.
He did not receive any salary.
The teachers are no longer coming back for a long time, and the nearest high school is in manohabur, 45 km kilometers away.
In the next village, 17 km metres away, Tirilposi, there are 90 schools
Go to the kids but there is no building.
"CRP sahib broke the roof," explained the village of munda Budhram Gudiya.
The original outline of the SDP presented 10 boarding schools.
Now it all seems to have been abandoned.
"It is planned to build an Ashram School in Manoharpur," the most recent one --
Posted area collector Abu Bakr. Mr.
Ramesh explained that conceptual change in SDP is both an intrinsic feature of the village and the fact that "education and health are different sectors.
The plan lists the construction of 10 Comprehensive Development Centers (IDCs)—
In addition to angavadi, ration shops, banks, there will be a hospital in each
Only one work was completed in Digha in April.
In order to improve health services, a mobile health unit has visited on behalf of all villages since last October.
"Ambulances often visit," said Thalkobad, a villager . ".
But although there is a rural road that can be traveled, it has not yet been found in Tirilposi.
On January, an eye
A health camp was held in a private hospital.
"More than 3 out of more than 1000 villagers have pterygium meat --
An inflammation that can lead to pain in blindness
Because I was exposed to dust, "said the doctor. Bharti Kashyap.
All villages have busy activities to build new Indian houses.
The march was part of Jharkhand National Association for livelihood promotion's efforts to provide long-term services
The term "livelihood security", a team of self-trainers
The aid team from Andhra Pradesh visited Saranda.
The team stayed at Thalkobad for 15 days but did not hold any meetings since leaving.
Villagers say they are not sure about the identity of the tourists.
"They say" Hum se judiye "(join us).
This is the party (Maoists)
"It's been said in the past, too, to see what's going to happen next," Binodini Purti said . ".
At Tirilposi, the villagers have different explanations for this.
"The income of most families is rupees.
A day after selling siali leaves on the Barsovan market in Odisha.
What will we save?
Asked Budhram Gudiya.
Then there is a family liability to pay legal fees.
Guowida Hong Haga (60)
Among those arrested by CRPF last year, his son banimal, a coal miner, spent his Rs.
Legal costs 1,60, 000. “I borrowed Rs.
4 People 40,000 per person, interest is.
Now, he is asked to go to the Barcelona court three times a month for the rupee. 900 —
This is my fourth salary . "
40 km metres away, an official waved a blank sheet of paper with 40 signatures on it.
"This was submitted by the mining company as the mining consent form for gram sabha.
"They called people to watch football matches and asked them to sign anything," he said . ".
Bilarman Kandulna, 25, a political science graduate from the school of Manoharpur, was elected representative of panchayat in Digha in 2010. “Some manki-munda (
Community Leadership)
Now wandering in the suv of Scorpio, but last year some people boycotted the public hearing of the electric steel.
On last April, we held demonstrations in villages.
"Then, the company will hold a public hearing in Bahihatu, 20 km kilometers away," Kandulna said . ".
"What is the use of forest pattas when they provide mining leases in the same forest? ” he asks.
Of the 812 individual forest rights claims, 511 were accepted as of April and the rest were rejected in the mining lease area.
Despite the large number of community rightsover 1200 —
Granted under SDP.
Jamkundiya in the House of manki Laguda Devgam in 22 villages, there is no Scorpio car, but there are three solar road light poles on three sides of his house --
Only street lights in other non
Electrified village in Saranda
They are gifts from Rungta Mining Co. , Ltd. , Usha Martin industries and Tata Steel.
Sonapi is one of the six villages that boycotted public hearings, where people were angry.
"If someone comes to your yard, something will be disturbed," said Mary Barra . ".
"We ask the company to provide a written commitment to health, education, work, but they have not done so.
Instead, they changed the location of the public hearing.
Now they are back with blankets.