India’s mining sector is growing steadily at a rate of 6 per cent-7 per cent every year, employing about 2 million people. But as it surges along, the sector's plundering of our environment and society has lead us to ask a question: how should mining be done in India so that it is economically viable as well as least destructive?

[Down To Earth tries to find some solutions in its latest cover story, 'India mining']?

The 'Anil Agarwal Dialogue on Mining, People and Environment', being organised in the memory of a crusader who redefined environment, will bring together a select group of experts, economists, regulators, mining companies, grassroots workers and mediapersons to debate issues ranging from the impact of mining, to mineral laws and regulations, and people's movements against mines.

Date: April 26-27, 2007
Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
For details see: Programme schedule, Background paper

View Sunita Narain's presentation [April 26, 2007]