In 1997, the Central Coalfields limited (CCl) had acquired 3555 acres of land to start its ambitious Magadh project. The environment clearance was given for 12 million tonne (MT) annual production in 2005 but it was not started due to the protest of villagers of Magadh.
In 2008, the planned capacity of project was increased to 20 MT from 12 MT and it got forest clearance in the same year(2008).
To acknowledge the support of villagers and their matured initiatives, the company has scheduled to organised a “felicitation ceremony” in which honourable public representatives(Jharkhand), representatives of trade unions, honourable public figures of society, related villagers and senior officials of administration were likely to be invited to participate on October 26, 2014 at Magdh CCl, which has been postponed due to the Model Code of Conduct.
The management of the company has been pursuing to open this mining project since 2005 but was not successful. But in last few years, the trust of villagers have been increased on CCl and eventually villagers of Ara, Kundi, Massilong, Saradhu, Devalgadha and Kurlong have supported the company to start the project of Magadh on October 22, 2014.