Mines, Minerals & People

Name

Mines, Minerals & People

Legal name

Mines, Minerals & People

Website

https://mmpindia.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ahmedabad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Alliance/Network Operations: mm&P operates as a non-profit alliance with no commercial revenue model. The organization functions through membership contributions, partnerships, and potentially external funding/support from aligned organizations to sustain advocacy, consultations, and community organizing activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Mines, Minerals & People (mm&P) is a non-profit national alliance that mobilizes grassroots groups, conducts national/regional/state/district consultations, organizes General Assemblies, and engages in lobbying with parliamentarians to advocate for tribal and indigenous communities affected by mining. It publishes advocacy resources including reports, community resource guides, documentary films, a podcast, and academic papers, and provides legal advocacy support leveraging precedents such as the Samata Judgment.

Product overview

Mines, Minerals & People (mm&P) is a national alliance of grassroots organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals concerned about the growing impacts of mining and resource extraction in India. The organization does not offer a commercial technology product but operates advocacy and knowledge-dissemination resources including publications (reports, community resource guides, the mm&P Mining Charter, academic papers), documentary films (such as 'Falling Through the Cracks: Children in Mining' in multiple languages), the Harshaneeyam podcast featuring interviews with environmental activists and scientists, and a comprehensive website serving as a hub for policy resources, declarations, general assembly materials, and campaign updates. The secretariat is hosted by Samata at Visakhapatnam.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Publications Published advocacy materials including governance conference notes, grassroots struggles reports, the mm&P Constitution, the mm&P Mining Charter, community resource guides, and academic papers on forest rights and social justice, available to advocates, researchers, and policymakers.
• Community Resource Guide A downloadable guide to understand the mining life cycle, its impacts, and remedies, distributed to mining-affected communities and grassroots member organizations. Available in English and Telugu versions as a community resource guide PDF.
• Harshaneeyam Podcast A podcasting platform producing audio content including the Telugu translation of 'Vanavasi' (the novel Aranyak) and interviews with conservationists, social activists, and social scientists dedicated to indigenous rights and environmental conservation.
• Documentary Films Documentary films covering mining impacts including 'Falling Through The Cracks: Children in Mining' available in English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Odiya languages, as well as films on the Samata Judgement, forest rights, tribal rights, and coal mine impacts, distributed to raise awareness among affected communities, policymakers, and the public.
• Reports Research reports covering deep sea mining, impacts without borders, UN child rights, occupational health in India, business and human rights, District Mineral Foundation (DMF) analysis, and VIIth General Assembly reports, distributed to advocates, researchers, and policymakers.
• mm&P Website and Digital Presence The organization's central website (www.mmpindia.in) serving as a hub for publications, resources, news, declarations, general assembly materials, consultations, lobbying and advocacy updates, and blog content, complemented by active presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully advocated for moratorium on new mining through Anandwan Declaration (2001)
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SamatacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSamata hosts the secretariat for mm&P alliance at Visakhapatnam. Ravi Rebbapragada serves as Executive Director of Samata and Chairperson of mm&P. Samata won the landmark Samata Judgment (1997) in Supreme Court securing tribal land rights.
• SETU: Center for Social Knowledge and Action, AhmedabadcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAshok Shrimali is associated with SETU: Center for Social Knowledge and Action in Ahmedabad. SETU collaborates with mm&P on consultations and advocacy work, particularly in Gujarat.
• Shri Hanumantharaya Educational and Charitable SocietyminorOthersRavi Rebbapragada is Vice President of Shri Hanumantharaya Educational and Charitable Society, Kurnool
• Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational organization; mm&P organized protests on behalf of APMDD and other international organizations (Asian Energy Network, Don't Gas Asia, Don't Gas The South) against gas expansion along India's coast.
• Asian Energy NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network; partnered with mm&P for coordinated protests against gas expansion as part of Asia Day Against Gas Expansion.
• Don't Gas AsiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational campaign network; collaborated with mm&P for protests against gas expansion projects.
• Don't Gas The SouthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational campaign network; partnered with mm&P for anti-gas expansion protests.
• Deep Sea Mining CampaignminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational campaign organization; Natalie Lowrey, coordinator of Deep Sea Mining Campaign participated in VIIth General Assembly 2019 as subject expert.
• Yes to Life and No to MiningminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational organization; Natalie Lowrey coordinated and participated in VIIth General Assembly 2019.
• Goa FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGoa-based environmental organization; Rahul Basu from Goa Foundation participated as subject expert in VIIth General Assembly 2019. Goa Foundation won landmark Supreme Court judgment on Future Generation Fund.
• Goenchi Mati MovementminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGoa-based movement for mining rights; represented by Rahul Basu in mm&P delegation meetings with parliamentarians.
• Project Affected People's Association (PAPA), West BengalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwaraj Das from PAPA West Bengal participated in mm&P lobbying delegations with parliamentarians.
• Adivasi Ekta ParishadminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational tribal rights organization; members participated in mm&P parliamentarian lobbying delegations from Gujarat and Rajasthan.
• Reach LawminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLegal organization; BT Venkatesh from Reach Law participated as subject expert in VIIth General Assembly 2019.
• World Social ForumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational forum; mm&P participated in World Social Forum held at Mumbai in January 2004.
• Asian Social ForumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional forum; mm&P participated in Asian Social Forum held at Hyderabad from 2nd to 7th January 2003.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Goa Foundation: Goa-based environmental organization that won the landmark Supreme Court judgment establishing the Future Generation Fund concept for mining royalties. Goa Foundation is an mm&P partner and shared subject expert at the VIIth General Assembly; it works on the same mining-accountability and intergenerational-equity issues.
• Deep Sea Mining Campaign: International coalition working specifically to stop destructive deep-sea mining. mm&P partnered with Deep Sea Mining Campaign for the VIIth General Assembly and has jointly organized advocacy against India's coastal and deep-sea mining expansion — a directly comparable thematic focus.
• Narmada Bachao Andolan: Long-running Indian social movement opposing displacement caused by large development projects (dams, mining). Operates with a comparable grassroots-network and public-interest-litigation model focused on protecting communities from resource-extraction harms in India.
• Cultural Survival: Indigenous-rights organization working on land rights, resource extraction, and policy advocacy affecting indigenous communities globally — directly comparable mission and methods to mm&P, including publications, advocacy, and convening of grassroots voices.
• Samata: Visakhapatnam-based organization that hosts mm&P's secretariat and whose Executive Director (Ravi Rebbapragada) chairs mm&P. Samata directly works on tribal land rights, scheduled-area governance, and the legal precedents (Samata Judgment) that mm&P's advocacy builds upon, making it the most operationally intertwined peer.
• Goenchi Mati Movement: Goa-based people's movement for community mining rights and against destructive mining practices. Works on directly overlapping policy asks with mm&P and has jointly lobbied Indian parliamentarians through mm&P delegations.

Broad incumbents

• Survival International: Global movement for tribal/indigenous peoples' rights with an active campaign against destructive mining and resource extraction on tribal lands. Larger and more internationally resourced than mm&P, but operating on overlapping tribal-rights-and-mining territory.
• Centre for Science and Environment: India-based research, advocacy, and policy-publishing organization working on environment and sustainable development. Shares mm&P's emphasis on research-driven policy change and publications, though CSE operates more broadly across environmental issues including mining.
• Amnesty International India: Broader human-rights organization with significant work on business and human rights, indigenous rights, and environmental defenders — overlapping mm&P's concerns at a larger, more general scope. Provides a comparable advocacy and reporting model across similar stakeholder sets.
• Greenpeace India: Major Indian environmental advocacy organization with a strong portfolio on coal mining, fossil fuels, and forest governance. Operates with similar lobbying, publications, and grassroots-mobilization methods but at materially larger scale and budget than mm&P.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/minesmineralsp
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCgZ931Vt4PCt5fDSoG0NoIA
• Facebookfacebook.com/minesmineralsandpeople
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/minesmineralspeople
• Instagraminstagram.com/mmp.india

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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