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Why does the EITI maintain silence on resource sharing with the land owners? Isnt that why the poorest people still live in the mining areas everywhere? While companies make away with the gold or coal or iron ore or bauxite, paying the royalty which is a pittance in India what do the people who have sacrificed thie air, water and land get? Do they get a share of the resource revenue? In India some NGOs have helped people do their own cooperative mining. Is that the only solution? In India the conflict between companies and people abetted by the greed of the governments has also led to increase in extremist activities like Naxalism. Why then is EITI not addressing the issue of the communities and revenues that is owing to them from state and companies?