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Coal versus Forest

Hub | July 19, 2012 at 15:15

We must stop the Government from cutting down giant areas of forest in Central India to get the coal that lies beneath.

MSS formed in Singrauli to protect forests & rights of forest communities

Feature story | March 27, 2013 at 15:23

There have been changes brewing in Mahan, Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh. For the first time last month local people from five villages formed a committee of sorts to protect their land and the forests from coal mining companies like Mahan Coal...

सिंगरौंली के जंगल बचाने के समर्थक हैं फिल्म स्टार अभय देओल

Press release | January 11, 2012 at 16:17

नई दिल्ली / सिंगरौली, 11 जनवरी, 2012­- फिल्म अभिनेता अभय देओल भी आज ग्रीनपीस कार्यकर्ता बन गये। वह न केवल कोयला खनन के लिए जंगलों की बलि देने के खिलाफ चल रहे ग्रीनपीस के अभियान में शामिल हो गये बल्कि खतरे में पडे मध्य प्रदेश के सिंगरौली जिले में...

Mahan Sangharsh Samiti gathering more local support for forest rights

Blog entry by Akshay Gupta | April 4, 2013

The sound of tribal songs filled the air, Sela - a tribal dance, set the atmosphere for more than 250 devotees from the village; they began offering prasad from the puja of 'Dih Baba' (forest God). Simultaneously, the Mahan Company...

Government wants coal, people want forests

Blog entry by Nambie | June 5, 2012

"Jungle toh munshi ka hain." These words stayed with me throughout and even after my stay in Singrauli, the so called energy capital of the country. We travelled to Singrauli, deep inside the Mahan forest to bear witness to the...

People in Mahan fight for their rights

Blog entry by Rina D'Souza | March 7, 2013

Mahan, Singrauli, Waidhan.....these were names thrown at me even before I joined Greenpeace. All I knew was that there is a forest in eastern MadhyaPradesh and we were to set off hot air balloons and actor Abhay Deol was to be a part...

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