Read comments of the Ministry of Environment & Forests on a draft note for Cabinet Committee on infrastructure regarding need for making available more coal bearing areas for enhancing coal production.

It has been shocking to see the immense pressure that has been developing from various quarters to reduce the NO GO forest zones to allow coal mining. MoEF has been succumbing to the pressure from the various ministries and drastically reducing the areas demarcated as NO GO zones. This move to open up more forest areas for coal mining is happening with no proper public consultation and with no consideration for the immense biodiversity and livelihood loss and displacement this decision will cause.  This is the comments of the Ministry of Environment & Forests on a draft note for Cabinet Committee on infrastructure regarding need for making available more coal bearing areas for enhancing coal production