MUMBAI ¨C India¡¯s first plan for a socially fair shift away from coal in areas where mines have been shut will include a survey of local people, alternative jobs for them and efforts to protect basic services from the effects, according to government officials.
Work on the plan ¡ª for which the government is seeking support from the World Bank ¡ª will begin this month, with ground surveys of two mining-hub districts in eastern India, federal coal ministry officials told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Preliminary reports will be submitted to the government within a year, but the timeline for the ¡°just transition¡± project is about eight years and it will cost at least $1 billion, they added.
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