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Coal India
Resettlement & Rehabilitation (R&R) Policy, 1994

C
oal is the dominating source of commercial energy in India. Around 70% of the country's energy need is met by this solid fuel in a relatively inexpensive manner. This will continue to be the major source of energy in the coming few decades, mainly due to scarce reserves of oil and gas which will exhaust in less than 20 years unless fresh deposits are found, environmental and rehabilitation problems associated with hydro-electric power generation system, serious environmental problems associated with nuclear energy and the fact that development of renewable energy source is still not commercially viable or popular. As against this backdrop, coal reserves (245 billion tones as on January 2004) in India are adequate to support the energy needs for more than 200 years at the present rate of consumption. Therefore, the extraction of coal is imminent in the times to come. But, this mining of coal also causes sufferings and......

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