Ranchi, Aug. 26 -- Chief Minister Hemant Soren met union Minister of State for Coal, Satish Chandra Dubey, at the Jharkhand Assembly today to discuss issues concerning coal mining-affected regions.
The talks focused on rehabilitation, environmental balance, livelihood generation, and infrastructure development.
The Chief Minister underlined that once mining activities are completed, the land should be returned by the Government of India to the state government, so it can be handed back to the original raiyats.
"The responsibility of rehabilitation, employment, environmental protection, and development of basic infrastructure in mining-affected areas must be jointly shouldered by the Centre and the state," Soren said.
Dubey responded pos...