The present study reveals that coal mining authorities have used deliberate, coercive and deceitful strategies for land acquisition and evacuation of people from their locality. Except a few mining employed people, almost all sample households did not have any appropriate means to rescue themselves from the difficulties they confronted during different processes of land acquisition, evacuation, compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation in Talcher coalfields, Odisha. As a result, a possibility of willing buyers and willing sellers with regard to land acquisition and a winwin ...