• People are seen silhouetted against the morning light on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on Thursday. As energy-hungry India seeks to fuel continued economic growth, millions of people are being robbed of their homes by companies building power plants on their land or mining the coal below it, activists and villagers say. | REUTERS
    People are seen silhouetted against the morning light on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on Thursday. As energy-hungry India seeks to fuel continued economic growth, millions of people are being robbed of their homes by companies building power plants on their land or mining the coal below it, activists and villagers say. | REUTERS
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PIDARWAH, INDIA – Siyaram Saket refuses to give up his 1½ acres of farmland in central India — no matter how much the coal mining company offers him.

Whatever the amount, said the 55-year-old, it will not be enough to replace the value of the fertile land feeding his family of six in Pidarwah village, in central Madhya Pradesh state’s Singrauli district.

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