Since March 2020, a struggle has been waged by Karbi and Adivasi farmers of Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Nagaon district of Assam against the forceful takeover of their lands to construct a solar power plant by Azure Power Forty Private Limited. In each formal statement, Azure Power continues to parrot that they are not in violation of the law, as they have legally purchased the land in question on a willing seller-willing buyer basis and are not in contravention of the law.
This, despite several news reports and other interactions pointing out to them that their “willing sellers” did not have......
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