IndiaMatters is a repository of documented impacts on local communities’ health and environmental destruction related to corporate mining in Adivasi regions of India and the people’s resistance.
Ongoing Resistances
As mining continues, communities have been resisting at each step. We are highlighting two significant ongoing resistance struggles against mining initiatives by Vedanta and Adani.
Health and Environment
This section provides some resources on environmental destruction and health damages reported by people living in mining affected areas in India.
Gadchiroli: Mining, Displacement and Resistance – Among the devastating impacts of the mining of iron ore in the region by companies like Llyod Metals, is the deterioration of the health of the people, including the Adivasi communities, the Adivasi Madia Gond community.
– October 2026
Justice in Mining Network Newsletters
The Justice in Mining Network South Asia publishes a monthly newsletter in Hindi and English. We have collected some recent issues. See their blog also
The Mali and The Parasite (2026)
A film by Ma Maati Mali Surakhya Mancha & Indigenous People Land Life Knowledge Systems Collective ( IPLLKC).
See the website : The Mali and The Parasite
