Coal mining and community activism in India
In 2019, the FAC awarded a further clearance of mining the Parsa Coal block, located in the northern Chhattisgarh''s Hasdeo Arand''s forest. More than 2,000 acres of forest land will be stripped for further coal mining. Parsa is only one of the 30 mapped mines in the rich Hasdeo Arad region—the largest intact forest area remaining in India.