Birbhum, West Bengal

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 334

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26 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtKhudrapur Sand Mine
15 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedExpansion of manufacturing plant of laminated sheet and proposed synthetic resin unit of PF Resin (7800…
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtBilwamangal Beluria Sand Mine
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtDakshin Ekdala (MIN_BIR_37) Sand Mine
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtTarachua Black Stone Mine Block
6 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtHatgachha Black Stone Project
30 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedDhulkomra Feldspar & Quartz Mine (O.C.)
24 Sept 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtBarajor (MIN_BIR_26) Sand Mine
24 Sept 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details suppliedHatgachha Blackstone Mine (Block ID – BIR/BS/2024/4)
22 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedBarua Gopalpur Black Stone Deposit of Asgar Ali
22 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedBarua Gopalpur Black Stone Deposit of Sri Laxmiram Mardi
18 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedCLUSTER NO. 12 (GROUP OF 14 MINES)

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 9
Forest land sought for diversion: 28 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 0
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 140 of 140 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 76 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 140
Category A proposals: 18
Families declared displaced: 150
Families declared affected: 150

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited. 3 of the proposals listed below declare displacement and are sited primarily in another district, so their figures are counted in that district’s total.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

No Presidential Order under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule declares any Scheduled Area in West Bengal, so no part of this district is one and PESA does not apply.

OrderMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Scheduled Areas declared under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution

What the record shows

Agricultural labourers, who work other people's land for wages, make up 46% of workers here. Compensation for acquired land is paid to those who hold title to it, so it does not reach them. They can still claim the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), because its section 3(c) counts a family whose livelihood depends on the land as an affected family, wherever that Act governs how the land is obtained.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 150 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 34,98,925
Households: 8,17,015
Average household size: 4.28; 0.57 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 6.9%; 1.6 points below IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 29.5%; 12.8 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 12.8%; 0.8 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 70.7%; 2.3 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 956; 13.1 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 13,30,368
Work participation rate: 38.0%; 1.8 points below IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 63.0%; 8.4 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 17.1%; 7.6 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 45.9%; 16.0 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 31.5%; 6.7 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 4.9%; 1.1 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 25.8%; 20.3 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 11.4%; 12.9 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 65.2%; 13.4 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 5.1%; 3.2 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q22026-Q3

The timeline counts 119 of the 140 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 21, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. 3 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 85.7%
Coal Mining 10%
Industrial Projects - 3 1.4%
Industrial Projects - 2 1.4%
Other (1) 1.4%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

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