Lok Sabha Question No. 3588 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-23
Subject: Compensation to Displaced Persons
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: TAMRADHWAJ SAHU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COAL

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3588 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.3.2017

## Compensation to Displaced Persons

3588.   SHRI TAMRADHWAJ SAHU:

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state :

- (a) whether the compensation for the lands taken from the tribals for South Eastern Coalfields  Limited  (SECL),  Chhattisgarh,  Central  Coalfields  Limited(CCL),  Jharkhand and Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited(MCL), Odisha has been paid;
- (b) whether the displaced persons in Chhattisgarh have been rehabilitated in places equipped with all facilities after the land acquisition;
- (c) if  so,  the  number  of  the  persons    benefitted  and  facilities  provided  for  their rehabilitation;
- (d) whether public hearing was conducted before the land acquisition and if so, the time and place where they were conducted and by whom;
- (e) the area of land acquired in Kusmunda mine in Korba district in Chhattisgarh and the yearly production in this mine from 2009 to 2017; and
- (f) the number of cases of coal theft that came to light and the action taken thereon till date?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  COAL, POWER, NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AND MINES.

(SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a): Yes Madam, as per information received, compensation for the land taken from the tribals  for  SECL,  Chhattisgarh,  CCL,  Jharkhand  and  MCL,  Odisha  has  been  paid. Possession of land does not start unless entire process of payment of compensation, Rehabilitation  &  Resettlement  (R&R)  and  employment of  land  owners  is  complete  as per the statutes in force. Suitable R&R  scheme,  as  approved in the District Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee (DRRC) is implemented and employment is provided based on the norms laid down by the company in its R&R Policy in force.

(b  &  c):  2150  persons  have  been  so  far  been  rehabilitated  at  different  R&R  sites  of SECL in  the  State  of  Chhattisgarh  and  basic  facilities  such  as  primary  school,  hand pump,  pond,  internal  Water  Bound  Macadam  (WBM)  roads  with  black  topping, Deosthan, open stage, wells, deep bore wells, electricity, children park, pucca drains, plantations, Panchayat  Bhawan etc. have been provided for their rehabilitation. (d): Most of the land has been acquired by CIL subsidiaries under the CBA Act, 1957

and there was no provision for public hearing in the said unamended  Act.

- (e):  The area of land acquired in Kusmunda mine in Korba district in Chhattisgarh was 2382.764 hectare. The year wise production is as below:-

|   Sl. No. | YEAR    | PRODUCTION (Million tonnes)   |
|-----------|---------|-------------------------------|
|         1 | 2008-09 | 10.56                         |
|         2 | 2009-10 | 11.20                         |
|         3 | 2010-11 | 14.56                         |
|         4 | 2011-12 | 15.00                         |
|         5 | 2012-13 | 15.00                         |
|         6 | 2013-14 | 18.42                         |
|         7 | 2014-15 | 18.75                         |
|         8 | 2015-16 | 24.50                         |
|         9 | 2016-17 | 26.00 (Anticipated)           |

(f): The  coal  companies  are  working  in  close  coordination  with  the  State/Local Administration  to  prevent  theft/pilferage  of  coal.    Further,  whenever  any  incident  of theft/pilferage  of  coal  comes  to  the  notice  of  the  coal  companies,  First  information Reports(FIRs) are lodged.  The number of FIRs lodged subsidiary-wise since 2013-14 is given below:-

| Company    | 2013-14    | 2014-15    | 2015-16    | 2016-17(upto December, 16 (Provisional)   |
|------------|------------|------------|------------|-------------------------------------------|
|            | FIR Lodged | FIR Lodged | FIR Lodged | FIR Lodged                                |
| ECL        | 8          | 29         | 134        | 226                                       |
| BCCL       | 12         | 9          | 9          | 7                                         |
| CCL        | 5          | 11         | 3          | 0                                         |
| WCL        | 9          | 13         | 6          | 12                                        |
| SECL       | 4          | 3          | 6          | 1                                         |
| MCL        | 2          | 4          | 0          | 1                                         |
| NEC        | 48         | 66         | 35         | 24                                        |
| Coal India | 88         | 135        | 193        | 271                                       |

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