In late August, several thousand farmers gathered at the village of Kohadiya, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Word had spread that an iron ore and steel plant was coming to the area.
People from about two dozen local communities converged on a public meeting to protest against the proposed construction of the 60-acre facility next to their land, where crops including tomatoes, rice, jackfruit and guava are grown.
The site’s owners, local conglomerate Hira Group, set out in environmental assessment documents how it would mitigate the polluting impact from the coal-fired plant where sponge iron would be melted into liquid steel.
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