A proposed amendment to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act envisages benefit-sharing with people in forests who are displaced by mining. It has been suggested that mining companies give 26 per cent of their equity or their profits to communities. The proposed law is revolutionary in its implications. Never before in India have the rights of communities over minerals been accepted. Benefit-sharing has all along been a grey area with evicted people being fobbed off with some kind of compensation. Often they end up getting nothing at all. To understand some of these issues, Civil Society spoke to Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director, at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).