Iron in their souls

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Dr Saibal Jana is a founding member of the Shaheed Hospital at Dalli Rajhara. “Once the Raoghat mine starts, the BSP’s CSR activities in its neighbouring areas will stop,” he says. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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“In India, governments who make laws, break them,” says veteran tribal leader Arvind Netam. He was suspended from the Congress for backing PA Sangma’s bid for Presidency. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Sukhranjan Usendi, a former CPI (M) leader who now runs an independent outfit, The Indian People’s Liberation Front, said Gawde was picked up because he’s become a prominent leader. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

A school at the foothills of the Raoghat hills attended by kids from neighboring tribal families. Framed photographers of Subhash Chandra Bose and Dr Radhakrishnan adorn its walls. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Narendra Nag, a sarpanch of a village in Antagarh. “They caught Badri over Raoghat. But he was not the only one protesting Badri,” he says. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Leela Devi Gawde, wife of Badri Gawda at her home in Antagarh. She says her husband has been framed and is being tortured under police custody. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Badri Gawde was mobilising people to protest the Raoghat mines and demand adequate compensation. In January, he was arrested under the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Security Act. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Rajesh Bhaskar, head of a Sarpanch body, Kanker, complains of police intimidation. He shows a list of village officials picked up under the charge of being “Naxal supporters.” (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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A banner before the Jan Mukti Morcha office in Dalli with Shankar Guha Niyogi’s picture. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Jeet Guha Niyogi, son of labour leader Shankar Guha Niyogi. He runs a mine workers’ organisation called Jan Mukti Morcha in Dalli that have helped build the Shaheed Hospital. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

This abandoned school run by the BSP was attended by 800-900 children of the mine’s workers before it was pulled down. A paramilitary camp is said to take its place. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Members of some of the 115 families displaced by the rail tracks. They were promised houses by Raman Singh but have no option but staying in hovels abandoned by sacked BSP workers. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Villagers at the foothills of the Raoghat hills are perturbed about the project. The land acquisition process has many loopholes, say forest rights activists. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

Rail tracks are being built from Dalli to Raoghat. The BSP owns majority of the ores in the Raoghat mine. The mine, however, will be developed and operated by private players (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:17 pm IST

The BSP set up an iron-ore mine in the town of Dalli Rajhara, MP in the Sixties. Shankar Guha Niyogi, a BSP mine worker, ran a 14-yr-long labour agitation here till his murder in 1991. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Iron in their souls

Dr Saibal Jana is a founding member of the Shaheed Hospital at Dalli Rajhara. “Once the Raoghat mine starts, the BSP’s CSR activities in its neighbouring areas will stop,” he says. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

“In India, governments who make laws, break them,” says veteran tribal leader Arvind Netam. He was suspended from the Congress for backing PA Sangma’s bid for Presidency. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Sukhranjan Usendi, a former CPI (M) leader who now runs an independent outfit, The Indian People’s Liberation Front, said Gawde was picked up because he’s become a prominent leader. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

A school at the foothills of the Raoghat hills attended by kids from neighboring tribal families. Framed photographers of Subhash Chandra Bose and Dr Radhakrishnan adorn its walls. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Narendra Nag, a sarpanch of a village in Antagarh. “They caught Badri over Raoghat. But he was not the only one protesting Badri,” he says. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Leela Devi Gawde, wife of Badri Gawda at her home in Antagarh. She says her husband has been framed and is being tortured under police custody. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Badri Gawde was mobilising people to protest the Raoghat mines and demand adequate compensation. In January, he was arrested under the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Security Act. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Rajesh Bhaskar, head of a Sarpanch body, Kanker, complains of police intimidation. He shows a list of village officials picked up under the charge of being “Naxal supporters.” (Source: Vipin Kumar)

A banner before the Jan Mukti Morcha office in Dalli with Shankar Guha Niyogi’s picture. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Jeet Guha Niyogi, son of labour leader Shankar Guha Niyogi. He runs a mine workers’ organisation called Jan Mukti Morcha in Dalli that have helped build the Shaheed Hospital. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

This abandoned school run by the BSP was attended by 800-900 children of the mine’s workers before it was pulled down. A paramilitary camp is said to take its place. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Members of some of the 115 families displaced by the rail tracks. They were promised houses by Raman Singh but have no option but staying in hovels abandoned by sacked BSP workers. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Villagers at the foothills of the Raoghat hills are perturbed about the project. The land acquisition process has many loopholes, say forest rights activists. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

Rail tracks are being built from Dalli to Raoghat. The BSP owns majority of the ores in the Raoghat mine. The mine, however, will be developed and operated by private players (Source: Vipin Kumar)

The BSP set up an iron-ore mine in the town of Dalli Rajhara, MP in the Sixties. Shankar Guha Niyogi, a BSP mine worker, ran a 14-yr-long labour agitation here till his murder in 1991. (Source: Vipin Kumar)

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