‘Today I only see denuded land’: Mango orchards give way to Adani’s power plant
In Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, a 2,400 MW thermal power plant is rising on land whose true costs are only beginning to surface. Awarded to Adani Power Ltd in a Rs 30,000 crore deal, the Pirpainti project has moved forward through disputed compensation, broken promises, and a public hearing farmers say was engineered to silence them. The two-part series traces what has been erased in the process.
The first part examines how hundreds of farmers across 12 villages have watched their orchards vanish without adequate compensation for either land or their orchards. The second turns to a community…
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