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18 Dic 2023

India: HRDs face arrests, brutal police crackdown for protesting corporate mining; incl. company comments

On 20 November 2023, police initiated a crackdown on a nine-month long peaceful protest against corporate mining in the Etapalli Subdivision of the Gadchiroli District.

The protest movement advocates against corporate mining in the Etapalli Subdivision of the Gadchiroli District. In 2007, Lloyds Metals and Energy Private Limited (LMEL) was given clearance to begin iron ore mining in an area of over 348.09 hectares of land in the village of Surjagarh in Gadchiroli.

In June 2023, six new mines, spanning 4,684 hectares, were leased to five companies —Omsairam Steels and Alloys Private Limited, JSW Steels Limited, Sunflag Iron and Steel Company Limited, Universal Industrial Equipment and Technical Services Private Limited, and Natural Resources Energy Private Limited. If allowed to operate, these mines could potentially displace at least 40,900 people.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Omsairam Steels and Alloys Private Limited, JSW Steels Limited, Sunflag Iron and Steel Company Limited, Universal Industrial Equipment and Technical Services Private Limited, and Natural Resources Energy Private Limited to respond; none of them did.

Company Responses

JSW Steel

No Response

Natural Resources Energy Private Limited

No Response

Universal Industrial Equipment and Technical Services Private Limited

No Response

Sunflag Iron and Steel Company Limited

No Response

Omsairam Steels & Alloys Pvt. Ltd

No Response

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