Jogtang (potato) between two rocks

The cat there had died. The one here had drowned. 

This old adage depicts the plight of the Samdrupcholing community who wanted to have a stake in the mining business and get a share of the riches.  Running from pillar to post in the hope of, now preventing loss in the millions before a piece of coal was mined, and recovering the Nu 20m advance they paid,  the circumstances they are in is making them edgy. 

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